Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 15:41:56 -0600 (CST) From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Olli Jarvinen <oltaja00@otol.fi> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Which FBSD version to choose? Message-ID: <14910.33956.889809.374381@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <93523812@toto.iv>
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Olli Jarvinen <oltaja00@otol.fi> types: > 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 information out of date?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. It's out of date. The latest mainstream release is 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? I don't think I've ever downloaded a release. I've installed off the FTP server, but these days I track from sources. I think the real reason is that those who want the latest don't bother downloading a release; the track the sources (it's pretty painless). So you don't get a swarm of people downloading a new release to update when it's released, so the new releases have to overtake the old ones based on new users. > About the files at the ftp sites... are the RELEASEs being bugfixed, > or only the STABLEs? Yes, RELEASEs are bugfixed. The bugfixed versions are called STABLE. a RELEASE version is a snapshot of STABLE that has been frozen and tested more thoroughly than STABLE is usually tested; after a release, bug fixes to the release show up on STABLE. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Unix/FreeBSD consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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