Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 13:07:06 -0500 From: mikel <mikel@ocsinternet.com> To: Olli Jarvinen <oltaja00@otol.fi> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Which FBSD version to choose? Message-ID: <3A3E5249.8B402E8D@ocsinternet.com> References: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0012181618390.11590-100000@rhea>
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4.2 has only been out for a short period of time. On top of whic those numbers may be inaccurate because most poeple who were running a previous version will pull the src and make the new version themselves...(of course this is just a guess) cheers, mikel Olli Jarvinen wrote: > Hi all. > > Yes, another newbie here with his newbie questions! > > I installed FreeBSD 3.4R on my small old hard disk, to see what > it's like. I'm going to install some version of it on my primary > hard disk in near future. But which version to pick? > (My box serves as a desktop machine at home.) > > 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 information out of date?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. > > 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? > > About the files at the ftp sites... are the RELEASEs being bugfixed, > or only the STABLEs? > > Thanks. > > Olli > > (by the way, why are the installing files called 'images'?) > > -- > Olli Järvinen mail: oltaja00@otol.fi > "There is the easy way, and there is the right way." > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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