From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 22 05:53:41 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CC5616A401 for ; Wed, 22 Mar 2006 05:53:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from skoval@mail.mipt.ru) Received: from mail.telecom.mipt.ru (mail-com.telecom.mipt.ru [81.5.65.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CD9A43D48 for ; Wed, 22 Mar 2006 05:53:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from skoval@mail.mipt.ru) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mail.telecom.mipt.ru (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F1D24629; Wed, 22 Mar 2006 08:53:39 +0300 (MSK) Received: from mail.telecom.mipt.ru ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.telecom.mipt.ru [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 32396-03; Wed, 22 Mar 2006 08:53:39 +0300 (MSK) Received: from [172.16.8.194] (unknown [172.16.8.194]) by mail.telecom.mipt.ru (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33BA84365; Wed, 22 Mar 2006 08:53:39 +0300 (MSK) Message-ID: <4420E664.9040404@mail.mipt.ru> Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 08:53:40 +0300 From: Sergey Kovalev User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: rakhesh@rakhesh.com References: <20060322050432.7801.qmail@web54512.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20060322050432.7801.qmail@web54512.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mipt.ru Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 6.1-BETA 4 stable for normal use? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 05:53:41 -0000 Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to try out FreeBSD and was wondering whether > I should start with 6.1-BETA4 or 6.0? Its just for > home use anyways, more as a way to fool around with > FreeBSD a bit, so was wondering if 6.1-BETA4 would > suffice for the purpose ... is it stable enough or > would it give me issues? > > Also, suppose I were to go with 6.0, is there some way > I can update to the 6.1 release when its released, > *without* downloading the CDs etc? Maybe give some > command which would download the required parts over > the Internet? I think you better install 6.0 so you can later upgrade it to 6.1 when it would be released and tested several weeks. The upgrade procedure is not so simple and requires much attention, but it is pretty good described in FreeBSD Handbook, and you can get valueble expirience in upgrading. You won't need to download CDs. Besides I think security patches for 6.0 would be provided until 6.2 version of FreeBSD will be released.