From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon May 28 5:16:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from amber.dds.nl (amber.dds.nl [194.109.21.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C535537B423 for ; Mon, 28 May 2001 05:16:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from danilook@dds.nl) Received: from feline.dds.nl (feline.dds.nl [194.109.20.19]) by amber.dds.nl (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA11535; Mon, 28 May 2001 14:16:16 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from moronic.edu.dds.nl (moronic.edu.dds.nl [194.109.21.17]) by feline.dds.nl (8.10.1/8.10.1) with SMTP id f4SCFVU20835; Mon, 28 May 2001 14:15:31 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <243124734.991052561101.JavaMail.danilook@dds.nl> Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 16:52:41 +0430 (GMT+04:30) From: danilook@dds.nl To: James Subject: Re: Hello, Cc: Stuart Duckworth , Dragon Singer , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit WebmailServer: De Digitale Stad, Ver. 1.0 by G.Hofstede 1998 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, Upgrading really isn't that scary at all. I upgraded to 4.2 about 2 weeks after I'd first installed and had no serious issues. Using CVSUP to download the new source and compiling new kernels and userland are all clearly & well documented in the handbook. Give a go some time. Dan James schreef: > >The Packages can be a pain in the *rse...although sticking with >stable has rarely caused problems...One thing I still haven't got to grips >with on FreeBSD is an upgrade, (4.2 to 4.3 for example) To be honest I >haven't needed to attempt it yet but it looks horrible ! :- ) > > >On Mon, 28 May 2001, Fredrik Olausson wrote: > >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> > Debian is not bad either for laptops...It has always found any >> > NIC's I have had... >> >> I like Debian, or I did until I broke the packaging stuff. Again, I feel >> that's the beauty of FreeBSD and Slackware; there is no need to worry about >> corrupting some database somewhere, if you don't like the program, just go >> ahead and delete it. But wait, lets not start a Linux distribution war on a >> FreeBSD mailing list :) >> >> -Fredrik >> >> > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message