From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 15 11:52:31 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 32CEC16A4CE for ; Thu, 15 Jul 2004 11:52:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: from root.netstream-gh.com (core.netstream-gh.com [193.220.176.41]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 05F0843D53 for ; Thu, 15 Jul 2004 11:52:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from miha@ghuug.org) Received: (qmail 40622 invoked by uid 414); 15 Jul 2004 11:29:49 +0000 Received: from miha@ghuug.org by root.netstream-gh.com by uid 411 with qmail-scanner-1.22 (clamdscan: 0.60. Clear:RC:0(192.168.0.3):. Processed in 0.051789 secs); 15 Jul 2004 11:29:49 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.3?) (miha@xuy.biz@192.168.0.3) by localhost with SMTP; 15 Jul 2004 11:29:48 +0000 From: "Mikhail P." Organization: Ghana Unix Users Group To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 11:52:16 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200407151152.16302.miha@ghuug.org> cc: Haim Ashkenazi Subject: Re: what version to use for home desktop? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: miha@ghuug.org 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 11:52:31 -0000 On Thursday 15 July 2004 09:45, 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 > 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 > 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). That's a nice move. I've been using FreeBSD-5.2.1 (tracking -STABLE) for few months now and I must to say that it runs very stable on my AMD Athlon XP 2400+/Nvidia workstation. > > thanx regards, M.