From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 3 17:36:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E52137B400 for ; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 17:36:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jive.SoftHome.net (jive.SoftHome.net [66.54.152.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E3DBE43E4A for ; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 17:36:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from yid@softhome.net) Received: (qmail 24629 invoked by uid 417); 4 Jul 2002 00:36:49 -0000 Received: from shunt-smtp-out-0 (HELO softhome.net) (172.16.3.12) by shunt-smtp-out-0 with SMTP; 4 Jul 2002 00:36:49 -0000 Received: from unknown ([216.194.20.175]) (AUTH: LOGIN yid@softhome.net) by softhome.net with esmtp; Wed, 03 Jul 2002 18:36:48 -0600 Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 20:36:12 -0400 From: Joshua Lee To: "Prasad Iyer" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: about freebsd current version Message-Id: <20020703203612.339f1c3a.yid@softhome.net> In-Reply-To: <000c01c21c53$0e0447a0$1902a8c0@sutlej> References: <000c01c21c53$0e0447a0$1902a8c0@sutlej> Organization: Plan B Software Labs X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.8claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.6) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 25 Jun 2002 19:47:35 +0530 "Prasad Iyer" wrote: > I have recently downloaded freebsd Current Version. I am new to > Freebsd. If you mean you've downloaded "-CURRENT" 5.0 version rather than the version 4 -STABLE or -RELEASE versions, you're making a big mistake if you're new to BSD. The 5.0 developer's preview version can sometimes be not operable, and contains experimental code. It's best if you're new to stick to the 4.x-RELEASE and -STABLE branches. (Latest release is 4.6.) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message