Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 15:57:59 -0500 From: eric <eric-list-freebsd-questions@catastrophe.net> To: David Syphers <dsyphers@u.washington.edu> Cc: Younes Al-Hroub <y5wars@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: Which Release to Download? Message-ID: <20040909205759.GC9666@catastrophe.net> In-Reply-To: <200409091322.15452.dsyphers@u.washington.edu> References: <200409091513.i89FDuS01592@clunix.cl.msu.edu> <200409091322.15452.dsyphers@u.washington.edu>
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On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 13:22:15 -0700, David Syphers proclaimed... > I disagree. I think a completely new user should start with 5.x - there's no > reason to learn the details of how 4.x works, just to have significant > portions of that knowledge become obsolete in a month. I wouldn't use 5.2.1 > on a production machine, but it's perfectly fine for a desktop or learning > machine. Obsolete? You can't be serious; I don't forsee going to 5.x anytime in the next year or so.
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