From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 25 1:29: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mel.alcatel.fr (mel.alcatel.fr [212.208.74.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B911914D01 for ; Thu, 25 Feb 1999 01:28:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr) Received: from aifhs2.alcatel.fr (mailhub.alcatel.fr [155.132.180.80]) by mel.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP) with ESMTP id KAA19642; Thu, 25 Feb 1999 10:26:13 +0100 Received: from lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (lune.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.144.65]) by aifhs2.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP2) with ESMTP id KAA03495; Thu, 25 Feb 1999 10:23:59 +0100 (MET) Received: from telss1.telspace.alcatel.fr (telss1.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.51.4]) by lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id KAA14368; Thu, 25 Feb 1999 10:12:32 +0100 (MET) Received: from telspace.alcatel.fr (nairobi.telspace.alcatel.fr) by telss1.telspace.alcatel.fr (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA16123; Thu, 25 Feb 99 10:21:35 +0100 Message-Id: <36D5174F.B52829E@telspace.alcatel.fr> Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 10:26:39 +0100 From: HERBELOT Thierry Organization: Alcatel Telspace X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Konrad Heuer Cc: Guitargod , FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: which release is better? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 3.1-Release is out and is now the official -Stable branch TfH Konrad Heuer wrote: > > On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Guitargod wrote: > > > hello! I just want to know which of these two are better: freebsd 2.2.8 > > or 3.0. Those are the 2 choices because that's the only 2 releases > > available at the bookstore close to our house. > > 2.2.8-RELEASE is a very good release. It is very very stable and will give > you access to many precompiled up-to-date software packages. If you don't > kneed the newest drivers only available in 3.x-RELEASE, it may be a good > choice. One small disadvantage is that the support for the a.out binary > format used before 3.x-RELEASE will decrease within the ports collection > (if you want to compile software from the ports collection by yourself in > the future). > > 3.0-RELEASE gives you access to some new drivers (e.g. Adaptec 7880 SCSI > on-board controller) and uses the ELF binary format. It is a more > experimental release; and not all the precompiled packages and ports of > 2.2.8-R are available in 3.0-RELEASE. > > Regards > > // > // Konrad Heuer ____ ___ _______ > // Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche / __/______ ___ / _ )/ __/ _ \ > // Datenverarbeitung mbH GÖttingen / _// __/ -_) -_) _ |\ \/ // / > // Am Faßberg, D-37077 GÖttingen /_/ /_/ \__/\__/____/___/____/ > // Deutschland (Germany) ----- The Power to Serve ----- > // http://www.freebsd.org > // kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de > // > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message