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Date:      Wed, 14 Mar 2007 12:05:58 -0400
From:      Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu>
To:        "Goncalves, Antonio" <Antonio.Goncalves@barco.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Core 2 Duo
Message-ID:  <20070314160558.GA64473@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <A163426948D2B748944329AC8CA552060C39EA05@KUUMEX03.barco.com>
References:  <A163426948D2B748944329AC8CA552060C39EA05@KUUMEX03.barco.com>

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On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 01:39:22PM +0100, Goncalves, Antonio wrote:

> 
> Dear Sir,
> 
>             I would like to use the FreeBSD as the OS of my new Laptop,
> instead of SUse.
> 
> It has Core 2 Duo and a NVidia 7950 GTX. Can you please let me know wish
> release shall I install?

Generally you would use the latest release (currently 6.2) and then
cvsup (csup) to RElENG_6.     In some cases and possibly this one,
when the hardware might be very recent, you might have to go even
more bleeding edge and install the development branch to get some
needed hardware support.   That would currently be 7.0 and csup to
the latest available.

In general, you do not have to go backwards to match hardware compatibility.

////jerry

> 
>             Many thanks in advance,
> 
>             Best Regards,
> 
>                         Antonio
> 
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