From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 21 5:30:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sanson.reyes.somos.net (freyes.static.inch.com [216.223.199.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7D1237B4CF for ; Tue, 21 Nov 2000 05:30:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from zoraida.reyes.somos.net (zoraida.reyes.somos.net [10.0.0.15]) by sanson.reyes.somos.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA00244; Tue, 21 Nov 2000 08:23:59 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from fran@reyes.somos.net) Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 08:31:16 -0500 (EST) From: Francisco Reyes To: default Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Getting FreeBSD 3.0 In-Reply-To: <3A1A612E.9E659624@mat.upc.es> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, default wrote: > directories is FreeBSD 3.4, so I would be very pleased if you could tell me how I can > get the 3.0 version. Use 3.4 instead. It is the latest along the 3.X line. >1) If some software runs correctly on FreeBSD 3.0, can I install it on > an upgraded FreeBSD version without any problems? You should. >2) Which is the difference between the following: >"3.4.-Release" >"3.4.-Stable" You may want to take a look at http://www.freebsd.org/handbook Releases are a point in time for the source tree. 3.4 stable WAS the ongoing branch of "stable", but it is now 3.5 I believe. You should be able to run any programs from 3.X under 4.X so you may want to get that instead. Otherwise I recommend you get hte latest 3.X which I believe it was 3.5 and then bring it up to "Stable". See instructions at the handbook. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message