From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 20 15:13:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB30C37B401 for ; Fri, 20 Sep 2002 15:13:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from syr.edu (syr.edu [128.230.1.49]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C7B043E65 for ; Fri, 20 Sep 2002 15:13:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from met@uberstats.com) Received: from SURVIVAL (syru207-229.syr.edu [128.230.207.229]) by syr.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA29901 for ; Fri, 20 Sep 2002 18:13:25 -0400 (EDT) From: "MET" To: Subject: About to install FreeBSD as a Desktop... Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 18:13:43 -0400 Message-ID: <000001c260f3$01c8ee20$6401a8c0@SURVIVAL> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.3416 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG So, following up the subject, I'm getting (finally) MY OWN laptop. Not a company owned or school loaned. It's a very nice machine that is shipping with XP Pro and I CANNOT wait to get it off. So here's the problem, do I install FreeBSD 4.5-1 which is what I've been running on my servers for quite some time now. I have no issues with it, it makes me happy. Or do I install 4.6.2 which has been released on CD and everything (as was 4.5). I'd like to use the machine for development (KDE apps and Web) which would naturally require me to run the latest versions of XFree86 and KDE. Other than that I just need some productivity apps, but nothing particularly special. Soooo, what's the REAL difference between 4.5 and 4.6.2? And finally, I've really only used FreeBSD as a work environment so I've never had the chance to answer this question myself.....can I view DVD's? And if so what program should I use? ~ Matthew /************************************************************** Matthew Metnetsky met@uberstats.com **************************************************************/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message