From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 15 11:48:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8777337B894 for ; Thu, 15 Jun 2000 11:48:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #2) id 132eOh-000PBi-00; Thu, 15 Jun 2000 19:29:47 +0100 Received: (from ben) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.12 #7) id 132eOh-000PG2-00; Thu, 15 Jun 2000 19:29:47 +0100 Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 19:29:47 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: clemensF Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, root@spotteswoode.de Subject: Re: which freebsd [345] to use? Message-ID: <20000615192947.Q74118@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <20000610035129.890.qmail@spotteswoode.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="Idd68gPqKLz5+Ci0" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20000610035129.890.qmail@spotteswoode.de> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --Idd68gPqKLz5+Ci0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable clemensF wrote: > so, what are the main differences between freebsd 3.x, 4.x and 5.x releva= nt > to a user with my profile? 5.x: developers only, this is the "current" branch. 4.x: most people, this is the latest "stable" branch. 3.x: only if you have a good reason not to use 4.x, IMO. this branch is the previous "stable" branch and isn't maintained as much as 4.x is. One reason I can think of is if you have old hardware which is no longer supported in 4.x onwards. You'll probably want 4.x. --=20 Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D --Idd68gPqKLz5+Ci0 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use MessageID: THMAW6xDNyxuTYn92PPeW/d6wXEZEy3D iQCVAwUBOUkgmCsPVtiZOS99AQHCawP/ReCJk+Jm6ENiUpBhTlFKh7mxPNif3cuM vYVyt9CUcyYz6M8ZUavFtJ+VYqhfyIzzW2/yK1RF/oKy+NRqRyfhz2U3BxPZ9rf9 0uvRVjfryNy1DoLfgZGkib+DYKiibd3goeuxv0TSWnZUNU+/xxrAfKJAub57B0K2 0AwKFLnIw68= =UoZF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Idd68gPqKLz5+Ci0-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message