From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 10 04:48:48 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B4F516A4CE for ; Fri, 10 Sep 2004 04:48:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp03.mrf.mail.rcn.net (smtp03.mrf.mail.rcn.net [207.172.4.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A23943D1F for ; Fri, 10 Sep 2004 04:48:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from roberthuff@rcn.com) Received: from 209-6-197-67.c3-0.smr-ubr1.sbo-smr.ma.cable.rcn.com ([209.6.197.67] helo=jerusalem.litteratus.org.litteratus.org) by smtp03.mrf.mail.rcn.net with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #7) id 1C5dL4-0007YH-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 10 Sep 2004 00:48:47 -0400 From: Robert Huff MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16705.12845.20202.878199@jerusalem.litteratus.org> Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 00:48:45 -0400 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <200409091422.37843.dsyphers@u.washington.edu> References: <200409091513.i89FDuS01592@clunix.cl.msu.edu> <200409091322.15452.dsyphers@u.washington.edu> <20040909205759.GC9666@catastrophe.net> <200409091422.37843.dsyphers@u.washington.edu> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.5 (beta16) "celeriac" XEmacs Lucid Subject: Re: Which Release to Download? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 04:48:48 -0000 Another framing: if the person is totally new to FreeBSD, the differences between 4.x and 5.x as a learning environment are negligible. Robert Huff