From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 9 18:54:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pike.osd.bsdi.com (pike.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3558A37B479 for ; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 18:54:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (john@dhcp246.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.246]) by pike.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id eAA2seH55305; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 18:54:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <003201c04abe$97df2840$8553f83f@flashcom.com> Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2000 18:55:12 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: "J. Taylor" <333@flashcom.net> Subject: RE: Stable versions of FreeBSD Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 10-Nov-00 J. Taylor wrote: > Gentlemen: > > I plan to order a computer from ASA. I only know of two versions that are > Stable. FreeBSD 2.2, 3.x. I would like to know the latest stable version. The latest version is 4.1. FreeBSD 4.2 will be released in another week though, and the CD's should be shipping in about 5-6 weeks, so you may want to wait to get the latest version, but that choice is up to you. > This will be a home computer for personal use. Being 64 years old I would > like to know how much math I need. I have forgotten most of what I was > taught. Unless you are going to be writing your own programs, you won't need too much math, and even programming rarely requires more than algebra except for special case problems. > I would appreciate any suggestions. I realize that I would have my head > against the wall for a long time. > > Sincerely, > > John Taylor > > 333@flashcom.net -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message