Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 14:08:59 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: "Mikhail P." <miha@ghuug.org> Cc: Haim Ashkenazi <haim@babysnakes.org> Subject: Re: what version to use for home desktop? Message-ID: <20040715130859.GB47977@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <200407151152.16302.miha@ghuug.org> References: <pan.2004.07.15.09.45.34.191888@babysnakes.org> <200407151152.16302.miha@ghuug.org>
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On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 11:52:16AM +0000, Mikhail P. wrote:
> 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.
Um... no you haven't. If you'ld been tracking -STABLE you'ld probably
have been using 4.10-STABLE. There isn't any 5.x version or code
branch that has been declared STABLE yet -- the 5-STABLE branch is due
to happen with the release of 5.3 in the next few months. Probably.
Perhaps you've been tracking the 5.2.1-SECURITY branch? It would have
to be either be that or 5.2-CURRENT, but if you've been tracking
current then you've been incredibly lucky not to have run into the odd
problem while updating.
In any case, 5.2.1-RELEASE-pN (whatever the latest patch level is on
the RELENG_5_2 branch) should work pretty well on a desktop machine
where performance isn't critical and where low load levels are less
likely to trigger problems. FreeBSD has a much more stringent concept
of what it will call a stable release than most Linux distros (Debian
being an honourable exception): the OP will probably be pleasantly
surprised.
Cheers,
Matthew
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