Postfix:
Finally upgraded my home mail server from an
ancient Postfix release (Beta-19990317-pl05) to the latest
snapshot. I consider that to be a statement on the
reliability of that package; I would still be running on an
older still version of what was then called VMailer (renamed
due to IBM legal concerns) if I hadn't lost a harddrive at
an inopportune time. ;-) The only problem with the upgrade
was forgetting to carry over a couple of configuration
values (specifically, recipient_delimiter;
whoops). Not bad for an upgrade inspired at 8:00 PM on a
Thursday night.
FreeBSD:
I gotta give the FreeBSD guys credit; that 4.2
machine I needed to crank out was one of the smoother
installs I've walked through in a while. I remember having
had a few problems with 4.0 and 4.1, but 4.2 was without
problem. Then a quick cd /usr/ports/www/apache13-modssl
; make install and the machine was out of my hands.
Every time I use that, I'm reminded of why I like apt; I'm
fond of RPM as a package management system, and with the Conectiva APT+RPM
release, I should be able to realize the ease-of-building
that the ports collection gives me, with the package
management features of RPM. I wonder if someone has done an
APT repository of the current Red Hat 7.0 release, plus the
updates?