Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 13:30:51 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: DAve <dave.list@pixelhammer.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why are so many people using 4.x? Message-ID: <20060329183051.GA78889@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <442ACFB2.70108@pixelhammer.com> References: <200603281234.11850.satyam@sklinks.com> <4429A37D.2020500@pixelhammer.com> <20060328213953.GA2682@xor.obsecurity.org> <4429B479.7000408@pixelhammer.com> <20060328224340.GA4063@xor.obsecurity.org> <442ACFB2.70108@pixelhammer.com>
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--zYM0uCDKw75PZbzx Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 01:19:30PM -0500, DAve wrote: > Kris Kennaway wrote: > >On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 05:11:05PM -0500, DAve wrote: > > > >>>Really you want to use 6.0 or 6.1 on any new system, simply because > >>>that's the modern, supported version of FreeBSD. > >>> > >>>Kris > >>I get frightened when something is no longer "modern" when it is less= =20 > >>than a year old. http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.4R/announce.html > >>Good reasons to recommend 6.X would be "bug FOO is fixed", "hardware FO= O=20 > >>is now fully supported", "FOO is now a kernel module and can be unloade= d=20 > >>or loaded at will", "disk performance is gazillion% better", etc. > > > >If it makes you happy, all of those things are also true. > > > >Kris >=20 > It would be nice to actually tell new users why 6.X is better wouldn't=20 > you think? No, because I have better things to do with my time than to repeat information that is widely available and locatable with a few seconds of searching. Kris --zYM0uCDKw75PZbzx Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEKtJbWry0BWjoQKURAhTUAJ0fjSlCpzQC9CNiRpNiNwvHoGDmswCbBhzq aseWIqWrrbpvHBbSy111JxM= =K+3J -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --zYM0uCDKw75PZbzx--
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