From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed Oct 6 0:47:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2372E14D0F for ; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 00:47:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@wintelcom.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA08464; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 01:04:46 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 01:04:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Alfred Perlstein To: J McKitrick Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux convert... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, J McKitrick wrote: > Will it be difficult to upgrade to 4.0? I just got 3.2, and i am leery of > updating to 3.3 and breaking my system (even though it has features i > could use) since i've seen some problems on the questions list. Won't 4.0 > be even more likely to do that? 4.0 is the developer version and not recommeneded for people new to FreeBSD. It's intended audiance is developers, early adopters (people in absolute need of new features) and people willing to fix bumps they come across. http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/cutting-edge.html#CURRENT Simply, if you have a problem with 3.x it's more than likely someone will want to walk you through the problem, however with 4.0 they'll more than likely ask you where the patches to fix the problem are. You'll probably find this helpful as a guide for 3.x: http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/stable.html as well as: http://www.nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk/FreeBSD/make-world/make-world.html Stick with 3.x for now, even the most experienced developers sometimes get bitten by -current (4.x). -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message