From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 27 23:26:31 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 C7E3E37B400 for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 23:26:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gravel.phpwebhosting.com (gravel.phpwebhosting.com [64.65.61.210]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 241E243E6A for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 23:26:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ethan@randominformation.com) Received: (qmail 13237 invoked by uid 508); 28 Aug 2002 06:26:21 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO Ace) (66.65.56.234) by gravel.phpwebhosting.com with SMTP; 28 Aug 2002 06:26:21 -0000 From: "Ethan Gilchrist" To: "Freebsd-Questions" Subject: RE: What should I track? Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 02:26:27 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <20020828060203.GB35836@grimoire.chen.org.nz> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Importance: Normal 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 That's what I was thinking as well. Just wanted a second opinion just to be sure. Thanks bunches! Oh something else I just thought of though. What about my ports? Should I track those from the same branch or is it all right to use the head for those? Only cuz I think I might have fouled that up and selected the head already. If I should pick one further down the tree how do I go about changing that? Ethan Gilchrist -----Original Message----- From: Jonathan Chen [mailto:jonc@chen.org.nz] Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 2:02 AM To: Ethan Gilchrist Cc: Freebsd-Questions Subject: Re: What should I track? 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