From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 5 10:32:09 2004 Return-Path: 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 3793B16A4CE for ; Thu, 5 Feb 2004 10:32:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from typhoon.he.net (typhoon.he.net [64.62.229.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1EBC643D45 for ; Thu, 5 Feb 2004 10:32:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lee@slaughters.com) Received: from slaughters.com ([198.253.71.162]) by typhoon.he.net for ; Thu, 5 Feb 2004 10:32:02 -0800 Message-ID: <40228BD1.7010209@slaughters.com> Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2004 10:30:41 -0800 From: lee slaughter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3.1) Gecko/20030524 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Simon Barner References: <15d.2cfa065e.2d52d135@aol.com> <20040205101448.GA63714@zi025.glhnet.mhn.de> In-Reply-To: <20040205101448.GA63714@zi025.glhnet.mhn.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: Bluegravity82@aol.com cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Good comments X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: lee@slaughters.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2004 18:32:09 -0000 Simon Barner wrote: >Hi, > > > >> I just bought BSDfree version 5.1 because I had very good >>comments about your operating system. Our company is planning to use as a NAT >>server . I want to know where can I take some courses to have at least the >>basics that it looks to be an awesome operating system. >> >> > >For a production system, the 5.x branch of FreeBSD (sic!) is not quite >ready yet, so you should better go with FreeBSD 4.9 (FreeBSD 4.x is the >so-called stable branch at the present). > >If you insist in deploying FreeBSD 5.x, please note that FreeBSD 5.2 is >already out. > > I too bought shrink-wrapped 5.1 CD set from bookstore and now have it running pretty well. I really don't feel like re-installing it already but the implication is that if you (unwittingly) installed a -CURRENT, you need to keep it up, i.e. go today to 5.2, etc..... I don't wanna do that. I'm newbie and my box is production-prone and I don't want bleeding edge and too ignorant to be in the -CURRENT branch. So.... are we recommended to go to 4.9-STABLE? (implying no updates until next -STABLE comes out? What are the dire consequences of staying with 5.1 until 5-STABLE comes out... and not always upgrading? tks..... this is a great os and a great support group, btw. lee slaughter