FreeBSD latest stable release and its support on dell 2950

[navneet Upadhyay]

Hi ,
          I have following questions.

1. Which is the latest release of FreeBSD.

2. What is the patch level?

3.What is the stability

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

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

Thanks,

Navneet