From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 18 13:42: 0 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 18 13:41:58 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9F4B037B400 for ; Mon, 18 Dec 2000 13:41:57 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 32257 invoked by uid 100); 18 Dec 2000 21:41:56 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14910.33956.889809.374381@guru.mired.org> Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 15:41:56 -0600 (CST) To: Olli Jarvinen Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Which FBSD version to choose? In-Reply-To: <93523812@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Olli Jarvinen 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 information out of date?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 It's out of date.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. 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