Help Newbie

[Steven T Sacco]

Yes i am a 'newbie' sorta.  i have experience in Unix from my former 
career, but am now just starting to use again and set up on my home 
computer.  My son has loaded FreeBSD 4.8 and I am havening several 
problems loading different applications.  Each one seems to have its own 
unique errors, i was thinking maybe i have messed up the OS files or we 
only got half a loaf when first loading it.  i was thinking about 
upgrading to FreeBSD 5.x to make sure the core files are ok.     What is 
the best and easiest way to upgrade from 4.8 to 5.x?  What is the latest 
and greatest 5.x load to get?
Let's start there before i begin my 1000 other questions.  And just one 
more, is there a 'Newbie' forum I should be using instead of this one?
Steve in Charlotte...