From owner-freebsd-mobile Sun Mar 7 17:56:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A95B914DBA for ; Sun, 7 Mar 1999 17:56:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) id KAA03052; Mon, 8 Mar 1999 10:54:43 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <36E32CB4.DB219B35@newsguy.com> Date: Mon, 08 Mar 1999 10:49:40 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Frank Louwers Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [newbie]: freebsd on ibm thinkpad References: <19990307102922.A10601@zeuswpi.org> <36E2BA62.27A67461@SoftOrchestra.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > 6) I was thinking about going for the 3.1 stable version. Are there any > > advantages/disadvantages in taking 4.0-CURRENT? YES! There are _huge_ disadvantages. 4.0-CURRENT is *experimental* software. It is *not* intended for general use. It is the *development* tree used by FreeBSD *developers*, and which just happens to be available to anyone else. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "FreeBSD is Yoda, Linux is Luke Skywalker." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message