FWIW; I tried 5.2.1, then 5.3 (briefly) and then I moved to 4.11 for the following reasons: - Bad press towards the 5.x series. - I expected 4.11 to be completely bug free and absolutely stable. - phk's axe broke one of my favorite ports and I didn't want to spend another 6 months "fixing" it. - I wanted to use XFree86-4 and building it on my own and figuring out the library mess later is not an option. - Although outdated, the downloadable java support package was available for 4.x only. In all honesty I recommend 5.x. In order to get real performance from 4.11 i had to rebuild the kernel with -Os -mcpu=pentium, and figure out how to get some poorly documented parameters right. 5.3 out-of-the-box was more responsive, it auto tunes better and is not at all slow as some irresponsible articles on the net had suggested. One thing I find extremely attractive in the 5.x series is the standards compliance.. many ports I use require patching to get working on 4.x. Also, if I can make a suggestion, installing the ports tree from the CD is a bad idea, by the time the CD is out the ports tree is already outdated. i either download the packages or build from an updated ports tree. I am convinced FreeBSD's core team is on the right track and our beloved FreeBSD will continue having a brilliant future. cheers, Pedro. ___________________________________ Nuovo Yahoo! Messenger: E' molto pił divertente: Audibles, Avatar, Webcam, Giochi, Rubrica… Scaricalo ora! http://it.messenger.yahoo.itReceived on Mon Apr 25 2005 - 13:59:58 UTC
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