From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 15 13:09:18 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62B7E16A4CE for ; Thu, 15 Jul 2004 13:09:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (ns0.infracaninophile.co.uk [81.2.69.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A39843D49 for ; Thu, 15 Jul 2004 13:09:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (localhost.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:::1])i6FD91hE049181 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 15 Jul 2004 14:09:01 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: (from matthew@localhost)id i6FD8xPk049180; Thu, 15 Jul 2004 14:08:59 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew) Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 14:08:59 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman To: "Mikhail P." Message-ID: <20040715130859.GB47977@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> Mail-Followup-To: "Mikhail P." , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Haim Ashkenazi References: <200407151152.16302.miha@ghuug.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="IrhDeMKUP4DT/M7F" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200407151152.16302.miha@ghuug.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Greylist: Message not sent from an IPv4 address, not delayed by milter-greylist-1.5.3 (smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk [0.0.0.0]); Thu, 15 Jul 2004 14:09:01 +0100 (BST) X-Virus-Scanned: clamd / ClamAV version devel-20040705, clamav-milter version 0.74a on smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org cc: Haim Ashkenazi Subject: Re: what version to use for home desktop? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 13:09:18 -0000 --IrhDeMKUP4DT/M7F Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 11:52:16AM +0000, Mikhail P. wrote: > I've been using FreeBSD-5.2.1 (tracking -STABLE) for few months now and I= must=20 > to say that it runs very stable on my AMD Athlon XP 2400+/Nvidia workstat= ion. Um... no you haven't. If you'ld been tracking -STABLE you'ld probably have been using 4.10-STABLE. There isn't any 5.x version or code branch that has been declared STABLE yet -- the 5-STABLE branch is due to happen with the release of 5.3 in the next few months. Probably. Perhaps you've been tracking the 5.2.1-SECURITY branch? It would have to be either be that or 5.2-CURRENT, but if you've been tracking current then you've been incredibly lucky not to have run into the odd problem while updating. In any case, 5.2.1-RELEASE-pN (whatever the latest patch level is on the RELENG_5_2 branch) should work pretty well on a desktop machine where performance isn't critical and where low load levels are less likely to trigger problems. FreeBSD has a much more stringent concept of what it will call a stable release than most Linux distros (Debian being an honourable exception): the OP will probably be pleasantly surprised. Cheers, Matthew --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK --IrhDeMKUP4DT/M7F Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFA9oHriD657aJF7eIRAh+OAKCwp1fUPhSVhSrAH5D87mGHnCc6RACcCwRI GEJJnhkJ1r/CVIfpTCaawMo= =C1lh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --IrhDeMKUP4DT/M7F--