From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 13 10:34:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail15.svr.pol.co.uk (mail15.svr.pol.co.uk [195.92.193.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 282AB15156 for ; Sat, 13 Nov 1999 10:34:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from matt@roadhouse.fsnet.co.uk) Received: from modem-35.tin.dialup.pol.co.uk ([62.136.24.163] helo=roadhouse.fsnet.co.uk) by mail15.svr.pol.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.03 #0) id 11mi0J-0003Je-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 13 Nov 1999 18:34:35 +0000 Message-ID: <382DAF31.7063D2E0@roadhouse.fsnet.co.uk> Date: Sat, 13 Nov 1999 18:34:25 +0000 From: matt X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Newbie question: Release vs. Stable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Is it OK to use packages for fbsd3.3-stable with fbsd3.3-release? Is it easy for a beginner to upgrade a release version to stable, and would it be practical to do this using a 56K modem (how much would I need to download). Thanks for your time. Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message