From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 13 19:45:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from berzerk.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (berzerk.gpcc.itd.umich.edu [141.211.2.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FF2237B479 for ; Mon, 13 Nov 2000 19:45:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from seawolf.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (smtp@seawolf.gpcc.itd.umich.edu [141.211.2.153]) by berzerk.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (8.8.8/4.3-mailhub) with ESMTP id WAA28175; Mon, 13 Nov 2000 22:45:08 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (timcm@localhost) by seawolf.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (8.8.8/5.1-client) with ESMTP id WAA17849; Mon, 13 Nov 2000 22:45:08 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 22:45:08 -0500 (EST) From: Tim McMillen X-Sender: timcm@seawolf.gpcc.itd.umich.edu To: Joel Dinel Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Which one to install -- Newbie In-Reply-To: <001301c04de3$0b71dba0$cf39c918@videotron.ca> 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 As long as you install any of the Release versions that you have you will be far away from delepment code and will be quite stable. So you might as well install the newest one (4.1.1) since it has the crypto code in it already. The release of 4.2 is also imminent. Tim ----------------------------------------------- "A government big enough to give you everything you want, is a government big enough to take from you everything you have." -Gerald Ford ----------------------------------------------- On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Joel Dinel wrote: > I'm a newbie at FreeBSD, and I really want to learn to use it. > > What version would you recommend? I'd like the latest stuff, but not the > devel branch as I don't want to spend my time fixing stuff. > > I've got ISO images for 4.1 and 4.1.1. I also have the FreeBSD powerpak that > comes with the CDs for 4.0. > > Which one? > > Thanks ! > > Joel Dinel > > > > 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