From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 21 16:47:15 2004 Return-Path: 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 5074C16A4CE for ; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 16:47:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.gmx.net (pop.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4096B43D31 for ; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 16:47:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mayday@gmx.net) Received: (qmail 2983 invoked by uid 65534); 21 Sep 2004 16:47:13 -0000 Received: from pD956F020.dip0.t-ipconnect.de (EHLO [192.168.0.5]) (217.86.240.32) by mail.gmx.net (mp010) with SMTP; 21 Sep 2004 18:47:13 +0200 X-Authenticated: #431110 From: Benjamin Sobotta To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 18:57:28 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <72437EBA-0BEB-11D9-9C7B-000A95BE58A4@tf7.so-net.ne.jp> In-Reply-To: <72437EBA-0BEB-11D9-9C7B-000A95BE58A4@tf7.so-net.ne.jp> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200409211857.28709.mayday@gmx.net> cc: Choy Kho Yee Subject: Re: The best release to install now? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 16:47:15 -0000 Hi Well as far as I can tell from the upgrading point of view it make no difference whether you're coming from 5.2.1 or 5.3. Well I have 5.3BETA running on several machines without any problems. If I were you, I would try both. Install 5.2.1 to see if this works and then upgrade 5.3BETA. If any problems come up just reinstall 5.2.1. Cheers, Ben On Tuesday 21 September 2004 16:29, Choy Kho Yee wrote: > I would like to install freeBSD on a machine which only has WinXP > resides in it now. I > need to set it up to do some work. And I think there are 2 choices for > me now, which are > 5.2.1 or 5.3-BETA5. > > Although I would like to keep up-to-date with the OS but still I want a > reasonably stable > system on which most ports installs without many problems. > > And I would like to be able to upgrade to 5.3-STABLE when it is ready > some point in the > future without much struggles. I don't mind to recompile all the ports, > though. > > So, what are your suggestions? > > Thanks for any input. > > --- > Choy Kho Yee > > "There are only 10 types of people in the world, i.e. those who > understand binary numbers and those who do not." > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"