Re: Security Questions.

From: birdpup (_____at____.___)
Date: 06/28/05 

Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 01:47:03 GMT

Michael J. Pelletier wrote:
> Noob wrote:
> http://www.ictp.trieste.it/~cfonda/sudan/OSs/references/freeBSD/Yahoo_and_FreeBSD.html
>
>>Why don't they track the stable branch?
>>
>>We started with a single Pentium 100 box running FreeBSD 2.0.5. We
>>eventually migrated the rest of our production servers to FreeBSD and
>>today we have over 50 servers running various versions of 2.1 STABLE. We
>>are in the process of testing 2.2 STABLE and hope to convert during the
>>next 6 months.
>
>
> Why are you using such an old version? The current stable version is 5.4...

lol Who's on first base?

The OP forgot to quote that paragraph from the referenced news article.
  Those are not the OP's words, but I also thought they were after
reading the question.

In partial answer, I believe this article is at least a few years old.