From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Jun 29 14:32:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from bico-de-lacre.iqm.unicamp.br (bico-de-lacre.iqm.unicamp.br [143.106.51.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 964E937C169 for ; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 14:32:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from atabraga@bico-de-lacre.iqm.unicamp.br) Received: by bico-de-lacre.iqm.unicamp.br (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 606BB19C0; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 18:30:50 -0300 (EST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14683.49162.283412.678322@bico-de-lacre.iqm.unicamp.br> Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 18:30:50 -0300 (EST) From: Ataualpa Albert Carmo Braga To: "JF Prieur" Cc: newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3.4 or 4.0 In-Reply-To: <006f01bfe20f$a08cebc0$ca0a000a@ackbar> References: <006f01bfe20f$a08cebc0$ca0a000a@ackbar> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under Emacs 20.3.1 Reply-To: atabraga@iqm.unicamp.br X-URL: http://www.iqm.unicamp.br Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org on Thursday, 29 Jun 2000 17:18:53, JF Prieur wrote: > Hi, > > Trying to wean myself from the M$ world so I've decided to take the > FreeBSD plunge :-) I have what must be the stupidest question ever asked Great. Welcome. > but I'm confused by the different release schemes. I know from RTFM'ing > that I should not use the current tree, but for a production > environment, should I be using 3.4 or 4.0. I downloaded 4.0-RELEASE and > have been installing packages from the FreeBSD-stable directory on the > FTP sites. Am I doing the correct thing? Yes. > > I'm asking because on some webhosting sites, they seem to all be using > 3.4 and not 4 and I was wondering if I following the correct paths. 4 is (more less) new and some people that likes 3.x don't want to change, bud, I guess, is better for you to start from the last release. Ata. PS: Sorry for awful english. > > WOW does MySQL rock on FreeBSD compared to NT :-) > > Thanks, > JF Prieur, MCSE > Benevolent Network Dictator > e being communications inc. > > The year before I was born we walked on the moon, > now 31 years later it is considered a modern feat of > science to grow tomatos in low earth orbit. > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message -- Ataualpa Albert Carmo Braga atabraga@iqm.unicamp.br http://www.iqm.unicamp.br To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message