user quest. is BSD 4.2 ok to install ?

[John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell]

user question.  could somebody reply to my email?

is BSD 4.2 ok to install ?

i've never installed BSD i did read about portage.  i wrote **

i have an older pc and want to stay away from a huge number of new 
problems / breakage of old apps / new hw i can't get.  something 
stable, quick(r) and simple

ie, i want a stable awk and an older web browser that sucks is just fine

i also don't want to kick my own butt.  what's a good release to start 
would you vote ?

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* http://sourceforge.net/projects/dep-trace/
* which can quickly and fully solve total (end-to-end) depends for bin 
or source (does for debian, can for BSD)