From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 7 10: 9:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.wmptl.com (mail2.wmptl.com [216.221.73.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C80B37BDCC for ; Wed, 7 Jun 2000 10:09:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from webmaster@wmptl.com) Received: from wmptl.com ([10.0.0.168]) by mail2.wmptl.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA67217; Wed, 7 Jun 2000 13:18:36 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from webmaster@wmptl.com) Message-ID: <393E8183.2D87D2@wmptl.com> Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 13:08:19 -0400 From: Nathan Vidican Reply-To: webmaster@wmptl.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "B. Randall Ivy" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Information please References: <000801bfd09d$888f5180$0ce825d1@krisivy> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > "B. Randall Ivy" wrote: > > To whom it may concern: > > I want to download FreeBSD, but going through the different releases > has left me dazed and confused. All I want is a stable release of > UNIX so that I can learn the basics of the OS. I'm not interested > (and not capable at this point) of sorting out complications of a > "bleeding- > edge" release. I will be running FreeBSD on a Pentium > 233 with 128mb RAM with 6gb > of hard drive space. Which release is the most generic and stable with > minimal bugs or glitches? > > Thank you, > B. Randall Ivy 4.0-STABLE would be the newest STABLE release, see the errata for 'bugs or glitches' information; typically a newer release has less bugs as they are fixed if known. FYI - FreeBSD is a fairly easy system to start off working with, and chances are after you start off working with FreeBSD, it'll be really hard for someone to sell you on any other UNIX o/s. -- Nathan Vidican webmaster@wmptl.com Windsor Match Plate & Tool Ltd. http://www.wmptl.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message