Would you recommend installing 8.1RC2?

2010-06-28 Thread Antonio Vieiro
Hi all, I'm brand new to FreeBSD. I've got 8.0-RELEASE up and running in my main workstation and I'm quite happy with it. Great job congratulations. I'm eager to try out 8.1, and I was thinking of trying it out on my laptop for my daily work (I'm currently running OpenSolaris 2009.06). My

Re: Would you recommend installing 8.1RC2?

2010-06-28 Thread David Rawling
On 28/06/2010 8:37 PM, Antonio Vieiro wrote: I'm brand new to FreeBSD. I've got 8.0-RELEASE up and running in my main workstation and I'm quite happy with it. Great job congratulations. I'm eager to try out 8.1, and I was thinking of trying it out on my laptop for my daily work (I'm

Re: Would you recommend installing 8.1RC2?

2010-06-28 Thread RW
On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 12:37:14 +0200 Antonio Vieiro anto...@antonioshome.net wrote: I'm eager to try out 8.1, Personally, I don't ever recall seeing a noticeable difference after a minor base-system update. Most user visible change comes from ports.

Re: Would you recommend installing 8.1RC2?

2010-06-28 Thread Antonio Vieiro
Hi all, Thanks all for your replies. First of all: I've seen 8.1RC2 announced here: http://www.evilcoder.org/2010/06/27/freebsd-8-1-rc2-released/ But there're no links, I imagine it's about to be released or something. I think I'll try 8.1RC2 as soon as it's released. I also think that the