Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 15:16:19 +0100 (BST) From: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> To: atk2@arctic.org Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.5 now or 4.6 later ? Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0204181515190.17335-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20020418135548.28488.qmail@twinlark.arctic.org>
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On 18 Apr 2002 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 ? > > thanks, Install 4.5 now, and track the stable fixes or just -stable; rebuilding world + kernel on your system isn't an overly onerous task. 4.5, 4.6 etc. are just points along the branch that is -stable. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk Donate a signature: http://tribble.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/~cmjg/sig-submit To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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