Re: Question: the stable edition of Freebsd

2008-11-03 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 12:53:52PM -0600, Steven Susbauer wrote: > Jerry McAllister wrote: > >On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 10:01:21PM +0800, Alex Zhang wrote: > > > >>Dear Support: > >> I'm a newcomer and want to install FreeBSD for study. Could you pls let > >>me > >>know which the stable edition of

Re: Question: the stable edition of Freebsd

2008-11-03 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 03 Nov 2008 12:53:52 -0600, "Steven Susbauer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If using a release, can he not use freebsd-update to keep current on > fixes rather than rebuilding everything? On a slow system, the more > binary the better. Of course he can, I mean, that's what freebsd-update is

Re: Question: the stable edition of Freebsd

2008-11-03 Thread Steven Susbauer
Jerry McAllister wrote: On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 10:01:21PM +0800, Alex Zhang wrote: Dear Support: I'm a newcomer and want to install FreeBSD for study. Could you pls let me know which the stable edition of FreeBSD now? And let me know how to subscribe the Q&A list that I prefer. Thanks in

Re: Question: the stable edition of Freebsd

2008-11-03 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 10:01:21PM +0800, Alex Zhang wrote: > Dear Support: > > I'm a newcomer and want to install FreeBSD for study. Could you pls let me > know which the stable edition of FreeBSD now? > > And let me know how to subscribe the Q&A list that I prefer. > > Thanks in advance. >

RE: Question: the stable edition of Freebsd

2008-11-03 Thread Johan Hendriks
>Dear Support: > >I'm a newcomer and want to install FreeBSD for study. Could you pls let me >know which the stable edition of FreeBSD now? > >And let me know how to subscribe the Q&A list that I prefer. > >Thanks in advance. > > >BR >Alex The latest stable version is a release like 7.0 or 6.3

Re: Question: the stable edition of Freebsd

2008-11-03 Thread Andreas Rudisch
On Mon, 3 Nov 2008 22:01:21 +0800 "Alex Zhang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm a newcomer and want to install FreeBSD for study. Could you pls let me > know which the stable edition of FreeBSD now? http://www.freebsd.org/ http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.0R/announce.html > And let me know how