FreeBSD and RedHat 8.0. (adrian's home)

Now that rogue is behind our firewall, with absolutely no services exposed to the outside world, it's fallen a bit behind the times. Still running RedHat 6.2, with no updates and/or security patches in ages, it has still been running kernel 2.2.20 with IDE patches. With five hard drives, and 135GB of data storage, fsck takes the better part of 30 minutes to run on an unclean shutdown. I finally bit the bullet the other day, and decided to risk doing an upgrade from RedHat 6.2 to 8.0, having had luck with the workstation upgrades I've tried. The upgrade worked without any problems! Now running 2.4.19, with ext3, and better SMP support, there's actually quite a noticeable difference. Now to get around to upgrading wolverine...

After testing out UT 2003 on a VMWare FreeBSD machine, and making sure that it works using BSD's Linux binary compatibility mode, I decided to reinstall mystique down at Q9 and put FreeBSD 4.7 on it. So last night, it got reinstalled, and is now running FreeBSD and the latest patched version of UT2K3 dedicated server for Linux. There aren't many people playing, but the load averages on the box are lower than they were before. I'm still getting used to BSD, it's a fair bit different than Linux, but I'm liking it so far. It's got a much more consistent feel to it than Linux does.

FreeBSD and RedHat 8.0.

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