From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 18 9:54:39 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 18 09:54:37 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from students.oamk.fi (rhea.otol.fi [193.167.106.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B644F37B400 for ; Mon, 18 Dec 2000 09:54:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (oltaja00@localhost) by students.oamk.fi (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA02846 for ; Mon, 18 Dec 2000 19:53:48 +0200 (EET) Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 19:53:48 +0200 (EET) From: Olli Jarvinen X-Sender: oltaja00@rhea To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Which FBSD version to choose? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi all. Yes, another newbie here with his newbie questions! I installed FreeBSD 3.4R on my small old hard disk, to see what it's like. I'm going to install some version of it on my primary hard disk in near future. But which version to pick? (My box serves as a desktop machine at home.) In the newbies page it says, "look for the latest mainsteam release", referring to 3.4R. Why not a newer one? Or is this piece of information out of date? I've been considering 4.1.1 or 4.2. According to the Release usage per day page, 4.1R and 4.0R are more popular than 4.2R. Even as early version as 3.2R has a considerable amount of downloads. Why aren't people just downloading the newest version? What's the catch here? About the files at the ftp sites... are the RELEASEs being bugfixed, or only the STABLEs? Thanks. Olli=20 (by the way, why are the installing files called 'images'?) --=20 Olli J=E4rvinen mail: oltaja00@otol.fi "There is the easy way, and there is the right way." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message