From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 28 21: 4:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mostgraveconcern.com (mostgraveconcern.com [216.82.145.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F6DF37BAC5 for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 21:04:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@mostgraveconcern.com) Received: from danco (danco.mostgraveconcern.com [10.0.0.2]) by mostgraveconcern.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id VAA73525; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 21:04:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@mostgraveconcern.com) Message-ID: <02e001bf993c$452fa0e0$0200000a@danco> Reply-To: "Dan O'Connor" From: "Dan O'Connor" To: "David J. Kanter" , "FreeBSD questions" Subject: Re: 3.4-RELEASE to 3.4-STABLE necessary? Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 21:04:32 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >I just bought the 3.4-RELEASE CDs and wonder if it's "necessary" for a >desktop user like me to go to 3.4-STABLE? Necessary? No. But it's a great, easy way to keep up to date with enhancements and bug fixes... >With 4 CDs of packages/ports, >updating to the stable branch will mean I'll essentially loose those >packages/ports, right, since they are meant for RELEASE and not STABLE? True, but you'll also have access to the latest version of all the ports. Have you tried installing software using the ports? Once you do you'll never go back! :-) --Dan -- Dan O'Connor On Matters of Most Grave Concern http://www.mostgraveconcern.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message