FreeBSD 4.8 v/s 5.1

Kirk Strauser kirk at strauser.com
Mon Sep 29 07:40:22 PDT 2003


At 2003-09-29T07:51:57Z, Bryan Cassidy <b_cassidy at bellsouth.net> writes:

> which is better for whatever reasons people use it.

Define "better" - I'm not being facetious.  If by "better" you mean "faster
on common hardware and more stable", then you *probably* want 4.x.  If you
mean "has cool new features and should be faster on high-end hardware", then
you *probably* want 5.x.
-- 
Kirk Strauser

"94 outdated ports on the box,
 94 outdated ports.
 Portupgrade one, an hour 'til done,
 82 outdated ports on the box."
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