From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 27 23: 2: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 981E437B400 for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 23:02:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from chen.org.nz (chen.org.nz [210.54.19.51]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B603C43E3B for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 23:02:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@chen.org.nz) Received: from grimoire.chen.org.nz (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chen.org.nz (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g7S623ve035911; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 18:02:03 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc@grimoire.chen.org.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by grimoire.chen.org.nz (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g7S623Al035910; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 18:02:03 +1200 (NZST) Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 18:02:03 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: Ethan Gilchrist Cc: Freebsd-Questions Subject: Re: What should I track? Message-ID: <20020828060203.GB35836@grimoire.chen.org.nz> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 11:34:42PM -0400, Ethan Gilchrist wrote: > Not really sure where I should actually be sending this but I think it's > more of a general question so I thought this list would be best. My question > is now that I've gotten 4.5 up and running which version should I track? I'm > using FreeBSD on my home comp to learn how to use it and will be setting it > up to do as much as possible (web-server, network server, FTP server, mail > server, etc) so that I can then take that knowledge and get a better job (or > get a job period at this point, heh). I know I'm not ready for 5.0 yet but > I'm not sure what version I should upgrade to other than that one. From what > I've seen on this list so far I'm not sure how stable 4.6 is but I'd like > your opinions. Since you're wanting to learn, go with -STABLE. The -RELEASE versions are way too static, and -CURRENT is really for the developers and people willing to debug kernel dumps. -- Jonathan Chen Once is dumb luck. Twice is coincidence. Three times and Somebody Is Trying To Tell You Something. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message