Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 22:44:39 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_K=F6nig?= <bkoenig@cs.tu-berlin.de> To: Joseph Vella <satyam@sklinks.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why are so many people using 4.x? Message-ID: <4429A037.2060805@cs.tu-berlin.de> In-Reply-To: <200603281234.11850.satyam@sklinks.com> References: <200603281234.11850.satyam@sklinks.com>
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Joseph Vella schrieb: > I notice a lot of references to version 4.x. Is there any overwhelming reason > why its use seems to be still popular. Because these systems were installed a few years ago and they are still runnnig fine. Furthermore it might be not harmless to upgrade a production server to a newer version of FreeBSD. > I'm wanting to set up a server (just > for play) on my home network using a PII machine. Am I better off using an > older version for such old equipment? If so, do any particular versions > stand out? Try latest first, i.e. 6.0-RELEASE or 6.1-BETA if you like. I have no problems with 6.0-RELEASE running on a Pentium III 300 machine. Björn
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