Re: Which Release

2012-08-14 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 07:29:14AM -0400, Rich wrote: > Hi, > > I was looking around and decided that I would try BSD. However, I am > having a problem determining which release will work for me. I have a > Intel Quad CPU Q6600, 64-bit.So the AMD64 is out, the i386 is out

Re: Which Release

2012-08-14 Thread Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 4:29 AM, Rich wrote: > Hi, > > I was looking around and decided that I would try BSD. However, I am > having a problem determining which release will work for me. I have a > Intel Quad CPU Q6600, 64-bit.So the AMD64 is out, the i386 is out, and &g

Re: Which Release

2012-08-14 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 08/14/2012 02:29 PM, Rich wrote: o the AMD64 is out, the i386 is out, and here I bog down, Can you please help? AFAIK it's AMD64. -- RMA. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions T

Which Release

2012-08-14 Thread Rich
Hi, I was looking around and decided that I would try BSD. However, I am having a problem determining which release will work for me. I have a Intel Quad CPU Q6600, 64-bit.So the AMD64 is out, the i386 is out, and here I bog down, Can you please help? Thanks in advance, Rich Goeken

Re: Last Question On Which Release Is Best For Production

2004-10-01 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 10:12:36PM -0600, Michael G. Goodell wrote: > My question is this: I currently run 5.1 (uname -a yields: 5.1-RELEASE-p17) > and I read at the page http://www.freebsd.org/releng/index.html it states > that 5.1 is Frozen and also states (not officially supported) - Does this

Re: Last Question On Which Release Is Best For Production

2004-10-01 Thread Simon Barner
Michael G. Goodell wrote: > My question is this: I currently run 5.1 (uname -a yields: 5.1-RELEASE-p17) > and I read at the page http://www.freebsd.org/releng/index.html it states > that 5.1 is Frozen and also states (not officially supported) - Does this > mean that I am using a release that is no

Last Question On Which Release Is Best For Production

2004-09-30 Thread Michael G. Goodell
First of all, Thank you to those who replied to my original post about which FreeBSD Release is the most stable for a production system. I would still like to ask for clarification on one last item. Almost invariably the reply to my post asking which FreeBSD release is *the* most stable for a prod

Re: Which Release to Download?

2004-09-09 Thread Robert Huff
Another framing: if the person is totally new to FreeBSD, the differences between 4.x and 5.x as a learning environment are negligible. Robert Huff ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/li

Re: Which Release to Download?

2004-09-09 Thread David Syphers
On Thursday 09 September 2004 01:57 pm, eric wrote: > On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 13:22:15 -0700, David Syphers proclaimed... > > > I disagree. I think a completely new user should start with 5.x - there's > > no reason to learn the details of how 4.x works, just to have significant > > portions of that

Re: Which Release to Download?

2004-09-09 Thread eric
On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 13:22:15 -0700, David Syphers proclaimed... > I disagree. I think a completely new user should start with 5.x - there's no > reason to learn the details of how 4.x works, just to have significant > portions of that knowledge become obsolete in a month. I wouldn't use 5.2.1

Re: Which Release to Download?

2004-09-09 Thread David Syphers
On Thursday 09 September 2004 08:13 am, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > At this point, unless you have some critical application that needs the > > proven stability of 4.x, I don't see a good reason for a new user to > > start there. Given that you want it for learning, I would say the > > choice is be

Re: Which Release to Download?

2004-09-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
ebsite, I found > > two Releases one called " New Technology Release: 5.2.1 " > > and the other called " Production Release: 4.10 " , > > I got confused which Release to download ??? > > At this point, unless you have some critical application that n

Re: Which Release to Download?

2004-09-09 Thread R. W.
s one called " New Technology Release: 5.2.1 " > and the other called " Production Release: 4.10 " , > I got confused which Release to download ??? At this point, unless you have some critical application that needs the proven stability of 4.x, I don't see a good reas

Re: Which Release to Download?

2004-09-09 Thread Matthew
ebsite, I found > two Releases one called " New Technology Release: 5.2.1 " > and the other called " Production Release: 4.10 " , > I got confused which Release to download ??? > Because I do not know the differences between the > New Technology Release and the Productio

RE: Which Release to Download?

2004-09-09 Thread Marcel de Reuver
1 " > and the other called " Production Release: 4.10 " , > I got confused which Release to download ??? > Because I do not know the differences between the > New Technology Release and the Production Release. > Please tell me the differences between them, > and which release

Which Release to Download?

2004-09-08 Thread Younes Al-Hroub
duction Release: 4.10 " , I got confused which Release to download ??? Because I do not know the differences between the New Technology Release and the Production Release. Please tell me the differences between them, and which release should I have to download? Help me pl