Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 12:09:55 -0500 From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> To: navneet Upadhyay <navneet.upadhyay@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Latest Stable FreeBSD version and its Dell 2950 Compatiblity Message-ID: <20080123170955.GF26684@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <1563a4fd0801222041r63c147e1he6e9853a50efd3b0@mail.gmail.com> References: <1563a4fd0801222041r63c147e1he6e9853a50efd3b0@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 10:11:04AM +0530, navneet Upadhyay wrote: > Hi, > I need to know which is the latest stable FreeBSD release(6.2 ?) and > does it goes well with Dell 2950 ? I am presuming you are using the word 'stable' in a generic sense and not the official STABLE version sense - eg you want the version that is considered to be in place and reliable for use. If FreeBSD terminology, that is the RELEASE version. STABLE is used to reply to a sort of beta version that is reliable but still somewhat fluid in development. The term CURRENT is used for snapshots of the version that is being modified at the moment and which might not be reliable (but often is). So, you want FreeBSD 6.3 which just became a RELEASE version a few days ago. The 6.3 RELEASE is the latest and is a good place to start installation. If you want 7.0 features, then just wait a few days and it will also become RELEASE. The 7.0 branch is destined to become the new main branch quite soon and all work will be done on it (and, of course, head which is now 8.0, etc) One nice new feature available in 7.0 is ZFS. But, that is something people are just learning to use. If you look at the release notes for each branch, you will get brief descriptions of the changes and have an idea if those features are urgent for you. It is expected that no new major changes will be made to the 6.xx branch though bug fixes may cause another RELEASE (6.4) to be made before it is completely at end-of-life. ////jerry > > Thanks > Navneet > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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