From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 15 10:39:42 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FD9316A4CE for ; Thu, 15 Jul 2004 10:39:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: from www.cyclades.de (mail.linux-router.org [62.225.173.194]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F149E43D54 for ; Thu, 15 Jul 2004 10:39:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mh@kernel32.de) Received: from [192.168.10.145] (helo=kernel32.de) by www.cyclades.de with asmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Bl3Ig-0002N4-00; Thu, 15 Jul 2004 12:17:14 +0200 Message-ID: <40F6598E.9060902@kernel32.de> Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 12:16:46 +0200 From: Marian Hettwer User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (X11/20040414) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Haim Ashkenazi References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-SpamCheck: cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: what version to use for home desktop? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 10:39:42 -0000 Hi, Haim Ashkenazi wrote: > Hi > > After using FreeBSD for a month on a server, I thought of moving my > desktop from debian unstable to freebsd (I've been using linux as my > desktop for 7 years now, and it's time for a change... :) ). I'm wondering nice idea... moving from debian to FreeBSD ;) > about what version to use. on debian it's very common to use unstable for > the desktop (if you know that sometimes a package breaks) and it's very > rare that the whole system breaks (I never seen that in the 2 years I'm Well, actually the System (base) shouldn't break because of third-party programs. However, XFree86 is causing trouble sometimes. Usually this has something todo with your graphics card ... > using it). what's the status on freebsd? can I use CURRENT for my desktop > without being afraid that it won't boot after an upgrade? the reason I > want CURRENT is mostly hardware support (e.g. I have a SB!Live and I read > that STABLE doesn't support it). > Well, you have to be aware when using CURRENT, that you are at the bleeding edge. When using CURRENT, I'd suggest give it a try with 5.2.1-RELEASE. I wouldn't 'make world' to the latest -CURRENT ... On my Desktop 5.2.1-RELEASE is running stable for quite a while. I had no issues at all. Give it a Try, but keep in mind, it's still -CURRENT, meaning, under development and it may crash. HTH, Marian