4.9 or 5.2.1 ?

[BolliPálmason]

On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 14:21:03 +0100
"Eelco Zwart" <eelco.zwart at planet.nl> wrote:

> I've read a lot (book and this lists) and now I finally going to install FBSD!
> 
> My first choice was to install 4.9 stable but after 5.2.1 was released I started to doubt.. Can anyone give me a good reason why not to start with 5.2.1 as a newbie ?
> 
> It's just a 'play-around' installation ...
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Hello

Well I was in the same shoes as you a week ago, I installed 5.2.1 and it was a great 
experience, everything just worked, even my raid-0 (HT370). I've done buildworld
and installed xwindows, icewm (windowmanager), firefox (browser), sylpheed (mail),
gaim (MSN) and eterm to name a few from ports, no problems so far. 

So if you are just going to "play-around" you should go for 5.2.1, if you have a
mission critical machine go for 4.9.

Bolli