From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 18 7:11:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail8.nc.rr.com (fe8.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28A0637B41A for ; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 07:11:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from i8k.babbleon.org ([66.57.86.84]) by mail8.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.687.68); Thu, 18 Apr 2002 10:10:51 -0400 Received: by i8k.babbleon.org (Postfix, from userid 111) id 77359BB39; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 10:10:49 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Brian T.Schellenberger To: atk2@arctic.org, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.5 now or 4.6 later ? Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 10:10:49 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] References: <20020418135548.28488.qmail@twinlark.arctic.org> In-Reply-To: <20020418135548.28488.qmail@twinlark.arctic.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20020418141049.77359BB39@i8k.babbleon.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday 18 April 2002 09:55 am, atk2@arctic.org wrote: | I'd like to install freebsd but unsure if I should go with 4.5 now or wait | 1.5 months for 4.6. It is not really clear from various notes if 4.6 will | contain much in the way of bug fixes or enhancements over 4.5. Any | comments/suggestions ? It's pretty straightforward to upgrade if you start with 4.5, provided you have a decent internet connection and you aren't afraid of using the make command. Check the release notes (/usr/src/UPDATING) and see if there are any major features that you care about since 4.5-RELEASE. I'd say that hot-swappable ATA is the bigee at least for me, but that probably does nothing for 90%+ of FreeBSD users. (And I have that right-now today even though it's a "4.6" feature because I upgraded my 4.5-stable as soon as--actually *before*--it was merged into the stable track.) | | thanks, | | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org | with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Brian T. Schellenberger . . . . . . . bts@wnt.sas.com (work) Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) ME --> http://www.babbleon.org http://www.eff.org <-- GOOD GUYS --> http://www.programming-freedom.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message