From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 14 14:50:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.doctordata.com.br (sabia.doctordata.com.br [200.197.172.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 56F4637BA1E for ; Fri, 14 Jul 2000 14:50:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ari@doctordata.com.br) Received: (qmail 16576 invoked by uid 0); 14 Jul 2000 21:52:31 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO compaq) (200.197.172.11) by mail.doctordata.com.br with SMTP; 14 Jul 2000 21:52:31 -0000 Message-ID: <05a901bfeddd$6ced2760$0201a8c0@doctordata.com.br> From: "Ari Arantes Filho" To: "Kevin Oberman" Cc: References: <200007142122.e6ELMrU17329@ptavv.es.net> Subject: Re: Release Version Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 18:49:45 -0300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks for the answer. I'm a new user in FreeBSD, I'm using RedHat 6.2 and want to try FreeBSD, which version do you suggest? Best regards, Ari ----- Original Message ----- From: Kevin Oberman To: Ari Arantes Filho Cc: Sent: Friday, July 14, 2000 6:22 PM Subject: Re: Release Version > > From: "Ari Arantes Filho" > > Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 18:16:31 -0300 > > Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > > > Hi All, > > > > Sorry about the simple question: Why the 3.5 release is newer then 4.0, > > what's the difference between then, and about 5.0? > > 3.5 was intended to be a final release in the 3 code base with none of > the major changes in the kernel and other places that were introduced > in 4.0. It is intended primarily for those who, for some special > reason can't/don't want to go to the 4.0 code base. > > 5.0 is "current". It is where new stuff is tried out before being moved > to the stable branch or (if not appropriate to stable) until 5.0 is > released. There is no 5.0-Release at this time nor will there be for > probably another year or so. > > R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer > Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) > Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) > E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message