Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 17:43:40 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: DAve <dave.list@pixelhammer.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why are so many people using 4.x? Message-ID: <20060328224340.GA4063@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <4429B479.7000408@pixelhammer.com> References: <200603281234.11850.satyam@sklinks.com> <4429A37D.2020500@pixelhammer.com> <20060328213953.GA2682@xor.obsecurity.org> <4429B479.7000408@pixelhammer.com>
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--xHFwDpU9dbj6ez1V Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 05:11:05PM -0500, DAve wrote: > >Really you want to use 6.0 or 6.1 on any new system, simply because > >that's the modern, supported version of FreeBSD. > > > >Kris >=20 > I get frightened when something is no longer "modern" when it is less=20 > than a year old. http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.4R/announce.html > Good reasons to recommend 6.X would be "bug FOO is fixed", "hardware FOO= =20 > is now fully supported", "FOO is now a kernel module and can be unloaded= =20 > or loaded at will", "disk performance is gazillion% better", etc. If it makes you happy, all of those things are also true. Kris --xHFwDpU9dbj6ez1V Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEKbwbWry0BWjoQKURAruuAKDNUUyV+qZCWqAjUgU4yT8DFYDDyQCglOnt aiF3mUgRu++do77ST3s3y1s= =GE5x -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --xHFwDpU9dbj6ez1V--
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