From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 27 07:30:36 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 707CC16A4CE for ; Fri, 27 Feb 2004 07:30:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from cg.c.is (mail.hallo.is [193.4.194.51]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA80E43D2D for ; Fri, 27 Feb 2004 07:30:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from beastie@internet.is) Received: from katla (194-144-5-60.xdsl.is [194.144.5.60]) by cg.c.is (8.12.9/8.12.9) with SMTP id i1RFUYDx2449450 for ; Fri, 27 Feb 2004 15:30:35 GMT Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 15:30:34 GMT Message-Id: <200402271530.i1RFUYDx2449450@cg.c.is> From: Bolli =?ISO-8859-1?Q?P=E1lmason?= To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <001901c3fd34$8f37a060$9700000a@twofence> References: <001901c3fd34$8f37a060$9700000a@twofence> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.9 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.2.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: 4.9 or 5.2.1 ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 15:30:36 -0000 On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 14:21:03 +0100 "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 ... > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-newbies > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-newbies-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Hello Well I was in the same shoes as you a week ago, I installed 5.2.1 and it was a great experience, everything just worked, even my raid-0 (HT370). I've done buildworld and installed xwindows, icewm (windowmanager), firefox (browser), sylpheed (mail), gaim (MSN) and eterm to name a few from ports, no problems so far. So if you are just going to "play-around" you should go for 5.2.1, if you have a mission critical machine go for 4.9. Bolli