Date: 30 Jun 2000 19:03:40 +0200 From: Simon J Mudd <sjmudd@pobox.com> To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Which release? Message-ID: <lwlmzncd8z.fsf@phoenix.ea4els.ampr.org> In-Reply-To: wsenn@postfuture.com's message of "30 Jun 2000 18:02:08 %2B0200" References: <NDBBIFJODDHHIOIDPLCNMEPJCMAA.wsenn@postfuture.com>
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wsenn@postfuture.com ("Will Senn") writes:
> 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?
I imagine others will tell you the same.
Go for 4.0 as this is the non-development "Stable" release.
It's relatively new (a few months).
You can keep really up to date using CVSUP keeping in sync with
4.0-STABLE.
3.5 is really a very last version of the 3.x releases, and probably
from now on will only have fixes related to security patches and stuff.
5.0-CURRENT is bleeding edge.
Don't go back to redhat linux, but try to use both at the same time.
That way you can learn the best of both worlds.
IMHO the redhat package management is superior to FreeBSD's but this
is partly a philosophical thing as FreeBSD appears to be built and
kept up to date following a slightly differnt model than (redhat)
linux.
I'm still using both, and may well choose to switch to one of the two
OSes once I'm equally comformtable with both and make an educated
decision.
Simon
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