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From: Olivier Gautherot <ogautherot@freesurf.fr>
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Subject: Re: 4.9 or 5.2.1 ?
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If you're a newbie, I would recommend 5.2.1. I use it happily. 4.9 is more for 
people who want to keep compatibility with earlier releases.

Cheerio
	Olivier

On Friday 27 February 2004 14:21, Eelco Zwart wrote:
> 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 ...
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