[weblacky]

His NVRAM defaults said cpufreq=195, so I assumed he has an R10K CPU, so I stand behind my advice. A new user will have an easier, better, first time experience by just doing 6.5.22 first, as that’s what’s most important.

That software availability, configuration advice, and compatibility will be the best under 6.5. Once some experience is accumulated, then I’d say downgrade if you want to experiment.

But I give advice based on what I wish someone had told me for this specific station. If 6.3 gets loaded and there are questions, I would think it more likely users would just recommend he upgrade, because 6.5.22 the most known, common, OS version. Most people couldn’t help, as how many of us have even really used 6.3 in much detail?

Let’s make this easy, why would we recommend older OSes that are less used or known by our members to a novice, new, user?