FreeBSD 4.9 stable or 5.x? TIA

Greetings.

I'm having trouble deciding as to which version of FBSD I should get.
Obviously 5.x should have more support for NFORCE2 and NVIDIA cards and
sound.

My current hardware is an Asus A7N8X Deluxe mobo, 524MB RAM, 20 and 40
GB HDDs a Memorex CRW-1622 drive, parallel zip100 drive, Palm 515,
Handspring Visor Edge, Logitech Marble Mouse, Logitech Internet
Navigator Keyboard, HP DeskJet 672C printer and HP ScanJet 4470c.

Any pros and cons about both versions, etc.

What about dependencies and package handling?

Thank you.


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roadster3043

On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 04:18:38 GMT
roadster3043 wrote:

R> Greetings.
R>
R> I'm having trouble deciding as to which version of FBSD I should get.
R> Obviously 5.x should have more support for NFORCE2 and NVIDIA cards and
R> sound.

This is not in fact obvious - the graphics card support comes from
XFree86 and the binary drivers from Nvidia so it should be the same.

The -current mailing list has an active thread running on the
subject of "sound/pcm/* bugs".

Consider these, read the early adopters guide and make up your
own mind. If you are still in doubt then try both out now while it's
still easy.

R> Any pros and cons about both versions, etc.
R>
R> What about dependencies and package handling?

Some of the ports don't compile under the shiny new gcc in 5.x
but they are getting fixed.

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