From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 6 21:53:48 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: chat@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1335E106564A for ; Sun, 6 Apr 2008 21:53:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from tim.des.no (tim.des.no [194.63.250.121]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C11F68FC0A for ; Sun, 6 Apr 2008 21:53:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from ds4.des.no (des.no [80.203.243.180]) by smtp.des.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 665AB20BB; Sun, 6 Apr 2008 23:34:34 +0200 (CEST) From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= To: Michael Hernandez References: <86abkcpbbo.fsf@ds4.des.no> <344B0FA4-EC20-4D44-ACCE-1255B96CD1CC@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2008 23:34:33 +0200 In-Reply-To: <344B0FA4-EC20-4D44-ACCE-1255B96CD1CC@gmail.com> (Michael Hernandez's message of "Wed\, 2 Apr 2008 11\:08\:05 -0400") Message-ID: <86myo63bx2.fsf@ds4.des.no> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/23.0.60 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Newbie Update - & thanks! :) X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2008 21:53:48 -0000 Michael Hernandez writes: > I have always hated that with any distribution of Linux - it seems you > can get a stable (1.4.x release for example) of something, but once > many bugs are fixed upstream - perhaps in a 1.6.x release... you'll > never see those changes unless you cast package management aside and > build it yourself, or wait until the next distro release. It depends entirely on which distribution you choose. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no