From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 15 23:45:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from yana.lemis.com (yana.lemis.com [192.109.197.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 699EE15220 for ; Sat, 15 Jan 2000 23:45:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com) Received: from mojave.worldwide.lemis.com (m21.chn.vsnl.net.in [202.54.43.226] (may be forged)) by yana.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA00278; Sun, 16 Jan 2000 18:14:52 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by mojave.worldwide.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA03840; Sun, 16 Jan 2000 13:12:15 +0530 (IST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 13:12:15 +0530 From: Greg Lehey To: R Joseph Wright Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Should I get 3.0? Message-ID: <20000116131215.J3413@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> Reply-To: Greg Lehey References: <38812AFA.C1D98942@nwlink.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <38812AFA.C1D98942@nwlink.com>; from rjoseph@nwlink.com on Sat, Jan 15, 2000 at 06:20:42PM -0800 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday, 15 January 2000 at 18:20:42 -0800, R Joseph Wright wrote: > My brother has agreed with me to install freebsd on his pc at home. > There is a bookstore near here that has copies of "The Complete FreeBSD" > including 4 cdroms for $20. But, it is version 3.0. I was very close > to getting a copy to send to him, but I'm thinking it might be money > well spent to get the latest. On the other hand, cvsup is very easy to > use. > > I guess it's really the book that I'm concerned with. Will the book > written for 3.0 remain useful for what's going on now? Check the exact edition of the book. If it's the third edition, it's worth the money (that's the edition that's still in print, and it normally sells for $40 without the CDs). If it's the second edition, I'd suggest you forget it. 3.0 was not the most stable version of FreeBSD. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message