Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 11:52:16 +0000 From: "Mikhail P." <miha@ghuug.org> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: Haim Ashkenazi <haim@babysnakes.org> Subject: Re: what version to use for home desktop? Message-ID: <200407151152.16302.miha@ghuug.org> In-Reply-To: <pan.2004.07.15.09.45.34.191888@babysnakes.org> References: <pan.2004.07.15.09.45.34.191888@babysnakes.org>
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On Thursday 15 July 2004 09:45, Haim Ashkenazi wrote: > Hi > > After using FreeBSD for a month on a server, I thought of moving my > desktop from debian unstable to freebsd (I've been using linux as my > desktop for 7 years now, and it's time for a change... :) ). I'm wondering > about what version to use. on debian it's very common to use unstable for > the desktop (if you know that sometimes a package breaks) and it's very > rare that the whole system breaks (I never seen that in the 2 years I'm > using it). what's the status on freebsd? can I use CURRENT for my desktop > without being afraid that it won't boot after an upgrade? the reason I > want CURRENT is mostly hardware support (e.g. I have a SB!Live and I read > that STABLE doesn't support it). That's a nice move. I've been using FreeBSD-5.2.1 (tracking -STABLE) for few months now and I must to say that it runs very stable on my AMD Athlon XP 2400+/Nvidia workstation. > > thanx regards, M.
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