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, > and here I

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 > here I bog down, C

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

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
> > On Thursday 09 September 2004 07:07, Younes Al-Hroub wrote: > > Dear Sir, > > > > I am a computer engineer and I want to learn the FreeBSD OS, > > and I do not have the FreeBSD software and when I have tried > > to download the FreeBSD software form your website, I found > > two Releases one c

Re: Which Release to Download?

2004-09-09 Thread R. W.
On Thursday 09 September 2004 07:07, Younes Al-Hroub wrote: > Dear Sir, > > I am a computer engineer and I want to learn the FreeBSD OS, > and I do not have the FreeBSD software and when I have tried > to download the FreeBSD software form your website, I found > two Releases one called " New Techn

Re: Which Release to Download?

2004-09-09 Thread Matthew
On Wed, 8 Sep 2004 23:07:07 -0700 (PDT), Younes Al-Hroub <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Sir, > > I am a computer engineer and I want to learn the FreeBSD OS, > and I do not have the FreeBSD software and when I have tried > to download the FreeBSD software form your website, I found > two Releas

RE: Which Release to Download?

2004-09-09 Thread Marcel de Reuver
> > Dear Sir, > > I am a computer engineer and I want to learn the FreeBSD OS, > and I do not have the FreeBSD software and when I have tried > to download the FreeBSD software form your website, I found > two Releases one called " New Technology Release: 5.2.1 " > and the other called " Product