Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 22:59:53 -0300 (ADT) From: arthur <arthur@col.auracom.com> To: Tim Gerchmez <fewtch@serv.net> Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG, Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> Subject: Re: Upgrading Message-ID: <XFMail.980722225953.arthur@col.auracom.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980722171241.0081b330@mx.serv.net>
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On 23-Jul-98 Tim Gerchmez wrote: > At 06:23 AM 7/23/98 +1000, Sue Blake wrote: > >>Personally I don't see any need to upgrade if 2.2.6 is working fine as >>it is. I tend to be one of those people who sit back and wait for the >>screams of pain to die down before deciding if there is any real >>incentive to upgrade, and 2.2.6 is pretty solid. I might keep upgrading >>a few individual packages, but that's no sweat. > .. I'm still happy with 2.2.5 .... > I see some reasons, although not a great deal: > (snip) > > Other than those, I don't see a lot of reasons, other than that it's > fun to > have a new and potentially slightly more powerful/faster release of > FreeBSD > on your system, at least for me :-) Also, some changes in 3.0 have > been > implemented, so upgrading now will allow for a more gradual transition > to > 3.0 (which is going to be a major upgrade with a lot of config filename > changes in /etc, for example) > >>Maybe it's too many years of using other operating systems that's made >>me so slow and cynical. Sure, it was nice to get rid of 2.1.5 but now >>even 2.2.2 still serves most of my needs :-) > ... I'd see it as being cautious, that's why I'm in no big rush to upgrade, I'll wait till 3.0, hopefully add and change some hardware around, start with a clean system again. In general, just have some fun with FreeBSD. > No, you're very justified in not seeing many reasons to upgrade. 2.2.6 > to > 2.2.7 is a fairly minor upgrade, and a fairly long download if getting > it > via that method (and messing with a solid, working system is ALWAYS a > pain, > one way or another). Now, if you say the same thing come the 3.0 > release > in October, I WILL call you slow and cynical <g>, as there will be > *MANY* > changes in that release (some of the RELNOTES on current.freebsd.org > just > blew me away entirely. It's almost going to look like a brand new OS > with > 3.0! *TONS* of additions, bug fixes and enhancements, most of them > really > cool and important from my point of view. > > Tim > ... umm, I plan to wait till 3.0 and then finally get the cd/book set, I hear the book is pretty good .. ;) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - arthur@col.auracom.com In a world without fences, is there a need for gates --end-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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