On Tue 01 Apr 2003 at 08:35:55, Andrew Jorgensen said: > "the Release Engineering Team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> does /not/ encourage > users to blindly update from older FreeBSD releases to 5.0."
"Blindly" being the operative word in that sentence -- typical of the conservative disclaimers rampant throughout all BSD software. I downloaded new tarballs of the entire source and ports trees, cvsup'd them, followed src/UPDATING, rebuilt the system and the ports, (all of which took about 2 days), and have been happy ever since, especially since my Alpha now runs both processors (after some minor tweaks that have since been patched in the RELEASE-5.0 cvs). In my experience (2.X -> 3.X -> 4.X -> 5.0), updating between major versions of FreeBSD isn't any worse than updating between major versions of Red Hat. It's just that BSD-ers tend to make their warnings a little more dire than those of the Linux camp. -- Soren Harward [EMAIL PROTECTED] ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
