From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 14 17:53: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wopr.caltech.edu (wopr.caltech.edu [131.215.102.114]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A4AD37B623 for ; Wed, 14 Jun 2000 17:53:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mph@wopr.caltech.edu) Received: (from mph@localhost) by wopr.caltech.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA93059; Wed, 14 Jun 2000 17:52:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mph) Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 17:52:57 -0700 From: Matthew Hunt To: Jon Eckhardt Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <20000614175257.A91004@wopr.caltech.edu> References: <20000614131310.A88665@wopr.caltech.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from jonathan@wam.umd.edu on Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 07:37:40PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [ cc to -questions added back, so that people can learn from the mailing list archives. ] On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 07:37:40PM -0400, Jon Eckhardt wrote: > My confusion. I would like to install a reliable version > at home. Should I track the stable branch instead of starting > with 4.0 release? They are both extremely reliable. For a new installation, I would go with 4.0 as it will be supported for much longer. 3.5 will be the last release of 3-STABLE and is targeted more for sites running 3.x than new installs. -- Matthew Hunt * UNIX is a lever for the http://www.pobox.com/~mph/ * intellect. -J.R. Mashey To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message