On Sep 27, 2007, at 10:54 AM, Michelle Konzack wrote:
Am 2007-09-24 10:01:12, schrieb David Brodbeck:------------------------- END OF REPLIED MESSAGE -------------------------Same basic problem, I think. To apply security patches you have to recompile. To recompile, you have to use GCC, which is a resource hog. You'd get old and die waiting for "make world" to finish on a machine with 64 megs of RAM. One solution, if there are faster machines on the LAN, might be to use distcc. But then you're not "really" stand-alone.But you know, that you can get NetBSD as binary distribution like Debian?
Yes, I do. But last I knew they only distributed security patches (between distribution releases) as source code, so if you want the latest fixes you have to compile from source. It's possible this changed -- I still run FreeBSD, but I haven't looked at NetBSD lately.
On the plus side, security fixes to the base system are fairly uncommon in *BSD -- since FreeBSD 6.2 was released in January, there have only been six of them, for example.