From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 22 06:19:49 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 D28E616A400 for ; Wed, 22 Mar 2006 06:19:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rakhesh_sasi@yahoo.com) Received: from web54509.mail.yahoo.com (web54509.mail.yahoo.com [206.190.49.159]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4A9BC43D53 for ; Wed, 22 Mar 2006 06:19:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rakhesh_sasi@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 70181 invoked by uid 60001); 22 Mar 2006 06:19:48 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Reply-To:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=lvvnyi5LnfbjAQd192OAk1CE8IjaiULJffSrFwr4/EN/2Yw/+7r/dfWIMGLI9/rfm1PoOu8KLz4sr8+czp65Jq0F6eN03MiMi6yeusYP9IfxG01n9XbYOLwh7wElaIv8TjIeMTPGsKh+kaAFd+vxcrsf3TQkQU8GGoHfXAqC3wA= ; Message-ID: <20060322061948.70179.qmail@web54509.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [212.72.24.106] by web54509.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 21 Mar 2006 22:19:48 PST Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 22:19:48 -0800 (PST) From: Rakhesh Sasidharan To: Sergey Kovalev In-Reply-To: <4420E664.9040404@mail.mipt.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 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 Reply-To: rakhesh@rakhesh.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 06:19:50 -0000 Great! That was a good point too. If I start with 6.0, it would be a good experience for me upgrading to 6.1. :) Super! Sergey Kovalev wrote: 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. --------------------------------- Yahoo! Mail Use Photomail to share photos without annoying attachments.