From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 15 23:53:12 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 23D1CFEE for ; Sat, 15 Mar 2014 23:53:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from eastrmfepo103.cox.net (eastrmfepo103.cox.net [68.230.241.215]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C153A313 for ; Sat, 15 Mar 2014 23:53:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from eastrmimpo209 ([68.230.241.224]) by eastrmfepo103.cox.net (InterMail vM.8.01.05.15 201-2260-151-145-20131218) with ESMTP id <20140315235305.VFLI28095.eastrmfepo103.cox.net@eastrmimpo209> for ; Sat, 15 Mar 2014 19:53:05 -0400 Received: from [192.168.3.22] ([72.219.207.160]) by eastrmimpo209 with cox id dzt41n00E3UAdxU01zt4PU; Sat, 15 Mar 2014 19:53:05 -0400 X-CT-Class: Clean X-CT-Score: 0.00 X-CT-RefID: str=0001.0A020208.5324E7E1.002D,ss=1,re=0.000,fgs=0 X-CT-Spam: 0 X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.0 cv=H/cFNZki c=1 sm=1 a=o76Gp7hjYHlWfsOj36Wk/Q==:17 a=f5xKl4ys9bwA:10 a=LGN1LpB6GecA:10 a=G8Uczd0VNMoA:10 a=Wajolswj7cQA:10 a=8nJEP1OIZ-IA:10 a=kviXuzpPAAAA:8 a=FP58Ms26AAAA:8 a=Fu2VrRXrEpl2uIX9_sAA:9 a=wPNLvfGTeEIA:10 a=YkDor_TC5ScA:10 a=o76Gp7hjYHlWfsOj36Wk/Q==:117 X-CM-Score: 0.00 Authentication-Results: cox.net; none Message-ID: <5324E7E5.1070207@cox.net> Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 18:53:09 -0500 From: "John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (X11/20100228) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-arch Subject: Re: user quest. is BSD 4.2 ok to install ? References: <1394893695.1149.553.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list Reply-To: johnandsara2@cox.net List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 23:53:12 -0000 user question. could somebody reply to my email? is BSD 4.2 ok to install ? i've never installed BSD i did read about portage. i wrote ** i have an older pc and want to stay away from a huge number of new problems / breakage of old apps / new hw i can't get. something stable, quick(r) and simple ie, i want a stable awk and an older web browser that sucks is just fine i also don't want to kick my own butt. what's a good release to start would you vote ? ----------------- * http://sourceforge.net/projects/dep-trace/ * which can quickly and fully solve total (end-to-end) depends for bin or source (does for debian, can for BSD)