From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Jun 30 10:37:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from spectre.honk.org (cr876208-a.flfrd1.on.wave.home.com [24.42.175.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EE2637C14E for ; Fri, 30 Jun 2000 10:37:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mpoulin@honk.org) Received: from spectre.honk.org (mpoulin@spectre.honk.org [24.42.175.137]) by spectre.honk.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id NAA26441; Fri, 30 Jun 2000 13:37:39 -0400 Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 13:37:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Marty Poulin To: Will Senn Cc: Freebsd-Newbies Subject: Re: Which release? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I'd go with 4.0 for the most current, yet stable version. - M - On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, Will Senn wrote: > Hi all, > > I am new to FreeBSD although I have used linux for a number of years. > > I would appreciate it if y'all could lend a hand and tell me how to pick a release to install? I bought the FBSDi Powerpack. It > comes with 4.0 and 5.0-current. I also have 3.5. I want stability but I also want to have current stuff that will run current > software. > > Do I take the latest, cutting edge 5.0? > Do I take the 4.0? > 3.5? > run back to redhat? > > > Help?!!! > > Will Senn > Senior Software Engineer, R&D > Postfuture, Inc. > Voice: (972) 789-1990 ext.232 > Fax: (972) 991-8446 > mailto:wsenn@postfuture.com > http://www.postfuture.com > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message