From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 9 15:54:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA15097 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 9 Dec 1998 15:54:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from caladan.tdx.co.uk (caladan.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA15063 for ; Wed, 9 Dec 1998 15:53:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kpielorz@tdx.co.uk) Received: from tdx.co.uk (lorca-tx.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.242]) by caladan.tdx.co.uk (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id XAA75697; Wed, 9 Dec 1998 23:53:45 GMT Message-ID: <366F0D89.19E64110@tdx.co.uk> Date: Wed, 09 Dec 1998 23:53:45 +0000 From: Karl Pielorz Organization: TDX - The Digital eXchange X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ZorkLord CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What version? References: <15951.971210@xtreme.net.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ZorkLord wrote: > > FreeBSD, > > Sorry, me again. I decided to buy the CD from Walnut Creek, > do I want Version 2.2.8 or 3.0?? > > -zL zorklord@xtreme.net.au If your running FreeBSD for the first time, I'd say go with 2.2.8 - We run both 3.0 and 2.2.1 through 2.2.8 here, 3.0 is run on a couple of 'development' boxes, the 2.2.X stable releases run on our 'production' (i.e. someone gets to scream if it fails) type boxes... 3.0 has more 'cutting edge' (i.e. up to date) features, but generally isn't run / tested by as many people as the 2.2.X-Stable releases (such as 2.2.8)... In reality our 3.0 boxes don't crash too often, but they do crash more often than our 2.2.1 through 2.2.8 boxes (which so far, counting the 410+ days uptime) have actually never crashed... ;-) -Kp To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message