I hesitate to ask this because it sounds stupid.
I went down to the tech book store and bought freeBSD on CD's.
it happened to be 5.1.
I, a neophyte, assumed it was kosher.
I bought it and installed it on 2 machines and pretty much ok so far.
Now I've been reading about the STABLE
thanks Jerry for this detailed reply. i really appreciate it.
from what you have said i think 4.9 might be indicated.
but i have one more question. device drivers.
i have kind of bleeding edge sound and ethernet cards.
in fact i've already had to put in an older NIC to get 5.1
to
I hesitate to ask this because it sounds stupid.
I went down to the tech book store and bought freeBSD on CD's.
it happened to be 5.1.
I, a neophyte, assumed it was kosher.
I bought it and installed it on 2 machines and pretty much ok so far.
Now I've been reading about the STABLE and CURRENT
I hesitate to ask this because it sounds stupid.
its not that stupid a question. i've asked worse.
use 4.9 definitely for production, it is the most stable at the moment, by
stable we mean tested.
try reading the handbook, about the part on creating a custom kernel. or
you can download the
lee slaughter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I hesitate to ask this because it sounds stupid.
I went down to the tech book store and bought freeBSD on CD's.
it happened to be 5.1. I, a neophyte, assumed it was kosher.
I bought it and installed it on 2 machines and pretty much ok so far.
Now
On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 04:40:00PM -0800, lee slaughter wrote:
thanks for any clarification i can get on:
1. which is best production version
As already highlighted, 4.x is touted as being production quality.
However there are no doubt plenty of users on this forum that use 5.x in
production
for
me.
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Subject: Re: production box: 4.9, 5.1, 5.2+ ???
On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 04:40:00PM -0800, lee slaughter wrote
