From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 29 18:30:53 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 0792516A41F for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2006 18:30:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58BB543D49 for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2006 18:30:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4125E1A4DCE; Wed, 29 Mar 2006 10:30:52 -0800 (PST) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B06D35481A; Wed, 29 Mar 2006 13:30:51 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 13:30:51 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway To: DAve Message-ID: <20060329183051.GA78889@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <200603281234.11850.satyam@sklinks.com> <4429A37D.2020500@pixelhammer.com> <20060328213953.GA2682@xor.obsecurity.org> <4429B479.7000408@pixelhammer.com> <20060328224340.GA4063@xor.obsecurity.org> <442ACFB2.70108@pixelhammer.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="zYM0uCDKw75PZbzx" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <442ACFB2.70108@pixelhammer.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why are so many people using 4.x? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 18:30:53 -0000 --zYM0uCDKw75PZbzx Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 01:19:30PM -0500, DAve wrote: > Kris Kennaway wrote: > >On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 05:11:05PM -0500, DAve wrote: > > > >>>Really you want to use 6.0 or 6.1 on any new system, simply because > >>>that's the modern, supported version of FreeBSD. > >>> > >>>Kris > >>I get frightened when something is no longer "modern" when it is less= =20 > >>than a year old. http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.4R/announce.html > >>Good reasons to recommend 6.X would be "bug FOO is fixed", "hardware FO= O=20 > >>is now fully supported", "FOO is now a kernel module and can be unloade= d=20 > >>or loaded at will", "disk performance is gazillion% better", etc. > > > >If it makes you happy, all of those things are also true. > > > >Kris >=20 > It would be nice to actually tell new users why 6.X is better wouldn't=20 > you think? No, because I have better things to do with my time than to repeat information that is widely available and locatable with a few seconds of searching. Kris --zYM0uCDKw75PZbzx Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEKtJbWry0BWjoQKURAhTUAJ0fjSlCpzQC9CNiRpNiNwvHoGDmswCbBhzq aseWIqWrrbpvHBbSy111JxM= =K+3J -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --zYM0uCDKw75PZbzx--