Left behind by YDL?

[Olaf Olson]

Steven,

Please understand that this is my  opinion.

I have observed that the world runs on money. Yup. Really.

Often, this means that spending money gives better results than not.

I am happy to work with my household server, with some security holes 
(potentially) as it isn't life or death, as I keep all valuable password 
data, account data, financial data, etc. on other machines that are not 
servers and are protected behind more commercial firewalls. YDL is for 
me to play.

Are people using YDL in a more professional capacity? I suspect so, 
because that's where Terrasoft MUST be earning its living. They're 
certainly not staying in business based on me or on others like me. 
Although I bought YDL 3 and will pay for YDL 4, it's not likely that my 
$90 is keeping the bill collectors out of TerraSoft's offices. Those 
commercial customers must be getting support from TerraSoft, for 
security updates and the like, which isn't quite so readily available to 
us... er... thrifty people.

In short, if keeping up-to-date with security issues and critical new 
features in server software is important and rolling your own isn't the 
way you want to pay for it, you should look into a contract for services 
with Terrasoft. I don't know what they provide and am not a spokesperson 
for the company, but I suspect they'll explain it all if you contact them.

Olaf

Steven J. Norton wrote:

>Eddie (and all): 
>
>Thanks for the tip, and for the instruction sheet. I'm very interested,
>though I'm a bit wary of trying this on my production server. Maybe if I get
>another machine up and running....
>
>Regarding updates, my main issue is keeping up-to-date with security issues
>and critical new features in server software without having to roll it
>myself too often. Nessus insists, for instance, that I have older and less
>secure versions of some packages, but updates are not readily available (ie
>pre-packaged) for PPC. So what is my best option:
>
>A) Stick with YDL and hope that v4 comes with the latest stuff (does it?)
>and will continue to be actively upgraded;
>B) Try MacOSX Server and hope that Apple provides timely updates (what's
>their record like?);
>C) Go to the dark(er) side and run Linux on x86 hardware (most places seem
>to have rpms for that platform available)?
>
>Any thoughts appreciated.
>
>  -- Steve
>
>on 11/17/04 8:09 AM, Eddie Bindt wrote:
>
>  
>
>>Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 08:02:55 +0100 (CET)
>>From: Eddie Bindt <eddieb at xs4all.nl>
>>Subject: Re: Left behind by YDL?
>>
>>On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, Steven J. Norton wrote:
>>
>>Steve, and others,
>>
>>Allthough YDL4 officially does not support OldWorld Hardware, I can
>>garantee you that it runs fine.
>>I even wrote an update howto, to do an yum update and get YDL4 up and
>>running on the ANS (and that is *really* OldWorld)...
>>
>>see http://www.shiner.info/?manuals/ANS-from-3-to-4.html for upgrade
>>instructions.
>>
>>This upgrading was done on several different types of OldWorld machines
>>(8500/9600/etc) ..
>>
>>Eddie
>>-- 
>>Eddie Bindt
>>    
>>
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