Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2005 03:18:14 +0100 From: RW <list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: newbie to fbsd Message-ID: <200509050318.15210.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> In-Reply-To: <2792860b050830050121a439b5@mail.gmail.com> References: <2792860b050830050121a439b5@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tuesday 30 August 2005 13:01, Mario Carugno wrote: > Hi there, i am now a Debian user, but curious about FreeBSD. Here are some > questions: > * I don't have a fast internet connection, so i have to get the CDROM > distribution. The question is: > ALL packages found in http://www.freebsd.org/ports/index.html are included > in the CDROMs, or they have only some of them ? The basics are there: kde, gnome, firefox etc, but Open-office and the majority of the ports are not. > * What's the difference between 5.4 and 4.11 releases ? For your purposes you either want 5.4, or to wait for 6.0 in a few weeks. > Why 4.11 CDROM distribution have 4 CDs and the later 5.4 have only 2 CDs ? The downloadable disks on the FreeBSD site are 2-disk sets for both 4.x and 5.x. I'm not quite sure what the status of 4.x, 4 disks sets are - it may have been a one-off experiment. As in Gentoo the best way to maintain a FreeBSD system is through building from source through the ports system. That's why FreeBSD doesn't come with a pile of package disks, unlike debian. It's perfectly feasable to use the ports system or remote package fetching with dial-up, I did it myself for a year or so.
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