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From: "Eelco Zwart" <eelco.zwart@planet.nl>
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Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 14:21:03 +0100
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Subject: 4.9 or 5.2.1 ?
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I've read a lot (book and this lists) and now I finally going to install =
FBSD!

My first choice was to install 4.9 stable but after 5.2.1 was released I =
started to doubt.. Can anyone give me a good reason why not to start =
with 5.2.1 as a newbie ?

It's just a 'play-around' installation ...