From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 5 21:57:32 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 01B5116A4CE for ; Mon, 5 Jan 2004 21:57:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from radicalv.com (secure.radicalv.com [216.118.91.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A0FB43D1D for ; Mon, 5 Jan 2004 21:57:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ecrist@adtechintegrated.com) Received: (qmail 55157 invoked from network); 6 Jan 2004 05:57:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO 192.168.1.107) (66.41.18.160) by mail.radicalv.com with SMTP; 6 Jan 2004 05:57:28 -0000 From: Eric F Crist Organization: AdTech Integrated Systems, Inc To: "Teilhard Knight" , "FreeBSD" Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 23:57:19 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <003a01c3d416$b1462880$230110ac@fortunato> In-Reply-To: <003a01c3d416$b1462880$230110ac@fortunato> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200401052357.19781.ecrist@adtechintegrated.com> Subject: Re: What should I install? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2004 05:57:32 -0000 On Monday 05 January 2004 11:34 pm, Teilhard Knight wrote: > I have running FreeBSD 4.7 in one computer and version 5.0 "was not for > newbies". I see now, version 4.9 is out, but version 5.1 is too. In the > official FreeBSD web page, they recommend to install 5.1. > > Now, I haven't grown up from the newbie category, so the question is: > Should I install 5.2 or 4.9, perhaps 4.8, in another computer? > > Teilhard Knight > The Extraterrestrial > > Change "privacy" for "softhome" if you want to intrude my inbox I would recommend you download and install 5.1 if you can. The upgrade from 4.x to 5.x is nearly impossible and you're better off doing a fresh install. I've been using 5.x for quite a while now, even on a production web server with little problems. There's also better hardware support. Expect to see a few bugs, but they're getting taken care of pretty quickly. HTH -- Eric F Crist AdTech Integrated Systems, Inc (612) 998-3588