On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 12:29:02PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > >7.0 is perfectly stable and is recommended for production use. It's not > >bleeding edge code. That's 8.0-CURRENT which is NOT for production use. > >Unless you have a particular reason for using 6.x I would go with 7.0 It's > >fully tested. > > nothing is ever fully tested ;) but yes, 7.0 can be classified stable. i > would recommend 7.1-BETA install as some bugs are fixed there
If the original poster has fairly new hardware, then he might like to go with 7.1-RC1. This has got fixes for newer NICs and graphic cards - after all 7.0 is about a year old. If my memory serves me well, it's fairly rare to have bug fixes between the release candidates & the final release, so he shouldn't have too many problems with it. I just installed 7.1-BETA on a laptop when 7.0 was a no-go because it didn't support the NIC (realtek, I think) and the GPU (Nvidia 8600 M) using the nv driver. My advice on the i386 v AMD64 question is if your memory is 4GB or over (or likely to be in the future) use AMD64, otherwise take your pick. i386 has better support for Flash and proprietary Nvidia driver which might matter. I'm assuming the CPU supports the 64 bit extensions, if not, you have to use i386. Regards, -- Frank Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
