From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 5 02:18:17 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D30EC16A41F for ; Mon, 5 Sep 2005 02:18:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com) Received: from out4.smtp.messagingengine.com (out4.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.28]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7769143D46 for ; Mon, 5 Sep 2005 02:18:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com) Received: from frontend1.internal (mysql-sessions.internal [10.202.2.149]) by frontend1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79190CCE429 for ; Sun, 4 Sep 2005 22:18:15 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.151]) by frontend1.internal (MEProxy); Sun, 04 Sep 2005 22:18:15 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: LIE6FigebDuxRAXfsBb2P7eSsRPTfyYc6YFNazWnlAFr 1125886692 Received: from gumby.localdomain (dsl-80-41-71-93.access.as9105.com [80.41.71.93]) by frontend2.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AABED57030B for ; Sun, 4 Sep 2005 22:18:12 -0400 (EDT) From: RW To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2005 03:18:14 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <2792860b050830050121a439b5@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <2792860b050830050121a439b5@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200509050318.15210.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> Subject: Re: newbie to fbsd X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2005 02:18:17 -0000 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.