Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 13:49:34 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: Art <mattox@miller.cs.uwm.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ? 4 U Message-ID: <3C7AB16E.9020000@owt.com> References: <Pine.GSO.4.33.0202251041330.5680-100000@miller.cs.uwm.edu>
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Art wrote: > Hi, > > Is there any differences between the 4.5 release of FreeBSD that Daemon > News offers and the one that FreeBSD Mall offers? 4.5 release is 4.5 release regardless of who offers it. It is the other stuff that changes. From a real world point of view, they are out of date as soon as the masters cdroms are burned. There are patches thay have been added to 4.5-release. The cds provide a good starting point. If you aren't following the current system, then a release is sufficient. Just remember that staying with a release is not sufficient. Security patches are being added and if you stay behind, then you are as bad off as the W2K sysadmins that haven't added the patches to prevent things such as Code Red or Nimda. > > The reason I ask is on Daemon News website they indicate that the 4.5 > release is "a newly designed 4-CD set." It also is depicted in a > different style case than I am used to seeing in previous releases. My FreeBSD Mall cdrom set arrived with a much different looking case. I have opened the case but not used it. I maintain my systems using cvsup and I was well beyond 4.5-release when they arrived. Everything, from docs to ports are living things and are being continuously updated. I consider my cdroms a contribution and a starting point. Systems start dying from the time you first turn the power on. That doesn't matter until they actually fail and I don't want to spend hour(s) downloading an iso to get back to the current release. Kent > > Thank you. > > Art > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > . > > -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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