update from 7.0 to 7.2?

[Albert Shih]

 Le 29/06/2009 à 15:20:59-0400, Lowell Gilbert a écrit
> Brad Mettee <bmettee at pchotshots.com> writes:
> 
> > If a system is stable and ports are up to date, serving mail & web
> > pages as needed, is there any reason to update from this:
> > FreeBSD ns1.pchotshots.com 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Sun Feb
> > 24 10:35:36 UTC 2008
> > root at driscoll.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
> >
> > To something newer? (like 7.2 stable)
> >
> > Would there be any noticeable benefit from an update?
> 
> At *least* make sure you get the security updates...
> 
Other reason to make time to time a update is to simplify you life when
your old version don't work after N years. Someday you may have (for example)
postfix don't work anymore on you old version. So when you don't have the
choice, the update may very hard to make.

Regards.


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