From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 31 03:48:16 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id DAA00426 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 31 Oct 1997 03:48:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from mars.planet.net.au (mars.planet.net.au [203.15.90.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id DAA00417 for ; Fri, 31 Oct 1997 03:48:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from merv@planet.net.au) Received: from planet.net.au (ppp11.mel.planet.net.au [203.15.90.31]) by mars.planet.net.au (8.8.6/8.6.12) with ESMTP id WAA01819 for ; Fri, 31 Oct 1997 22:47:59 +1100 (EST) Message-ID: <3459C529.1115EA96@planet.net.au> Date: Fri, 31 Oct 1997 22:46:49 +1100 From: Mervyn Ah-Young Organization: Personal Account X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03b8 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: 2.2.5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, I am currently running 2.2.2 and would like to upgrade to 2.2.5. Do I need to re-purchase the CD-ROM set or can I just download the 2.2.5 kernel source and compile it on my machine? Is it worth upgrading to 2.2.5? What are the extra benefits? Please confirm. Thanks, Merv AUSTRALIA.