Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 10:26:39 +0100 From: HERBELOT Thierry <Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr> To: Konrad Heuer <kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de> Cc: Guitargod <leon1@gte.net>, FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: which release is better? Message-ID: <36D5174F.B52829E@telspace.alcatel.fr> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990225094902.11596B-100000@gwdu60.gwdg.de>
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3.1-Release is out and is now the official -Stable branch TfH Konrad Heuer wrote: > > On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Guitargod wrote: > > > hello! I just want to know which of these two are better: freebsd 2.2.8 > > or 3.0. Those are the 2 choices because that's the only 2 releases > > available at the bookstore close to our house. > > 2.2.8-RELEASE is a very good release. It is very very stable and will give > you access to many precompiled up-to-date software packages. If you don't > kneed the newest drivers only available in 3.x-RELEASE, it may be a good > choice. One small disadvantage is that the support for the a.out binary > format used before 3.x-RELEASE will decrease within the ports collection > (if you want to compile software from the ports collection by yourself in > the future). > > 3.0-RELEASE gives you access to some new drivers (e.g. Adaptec 7880 SCSI > on-board controller) and uses the ELF binary format. It is a more > experimental release; and not all the precompiled packages and ports of > 2.2.8-R are available in 3.0-RELEASE. > > Regards > > // > // Konrad Heuer ____ ___ _______ > // Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche / __/______ ___ / _ )/ __/ _ \ > // Datenverarbeitung mbH GÖttingen / _// __/ -_) -_) _ |\ \/ // / > // Am Faßberg, D-37077 GÖttingen /_/ /_/ \__/\__/____/___/____/ > // Deutschland (Germany) ----- The Power to Serve ----- > // http://www.freebsd.org > // kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de > // > > 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
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