Latest Stable FreeBSD release and is it supported on dell 2950

[navneet Upadhyay]

Hi ,
          I have following questions.

1. Which is the latest release of FreeBSD.

2. When was it released?

3. What is the patch level?

4.What is the stability

5. Which compiler to use: cc or gcc and which version .

6. Which platform/machine which BSD supports. Is Dell 2950 ok

Thanks,

Navneet