From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 7 11:59:29 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 756D71065692 for ; Mon, 7 Sep 2009 11:59:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsam@ipt.ru) Received: from services.ipt.ru (services.ipt.ru [194.62.233.110]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32EB98FC13 for ; Mon, 7 Sep 2009 11:59:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bb.ipt.ru ([194.62.233.89]) by services.ipt.ru with esmtp (Exim 4.54 (FreeBSD)) id 1MkcsZ-000HbJ-P7 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 07 Sep 2009 15:59:27 +0400 From: Boris Samorodov To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20090907072932.6cc2e4d2@scorpio.seibercom.net> Date: Mon, 07 Sep 2009 15:59:27 +0400 In-Reply-To: <20090907072932.6cc2e4d2@scorpio.seibercom.net> (Jerry's message of "Mon, 7 Sep 2009 07:29:32 -0400") Message-ID: <67796224@bb.ipt.ru> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Re: Replacing linux_base-fc-4_14 with linux_base-f10-10_1 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, 07 Sep 2009 11:59:29 -0000 On Mon, 7 Sep 2009 07:29:32 -0400 Jerry wrote: > I presently have linux_base-fc-4_14 installed on a FreeBSD-7.2 machine. > Would there be any benefit installing linux_base-f10-10_1 instead? I If it works for you, don't touch it. ;-) As for benefits: . use supported linux distributions (with security updates, etc.); . hardware acceleration _may_ work (strange but at some cases it works but not at others: googleearth works for me but has been reported by someone not to work). > believe I have to remove the linux_base-fc-4_14 installation first. Are > there any pitfalls, etc? I assume I would have to rebuild any ports > that depended on the older version after installing the newer one. There is some info at /usr/ports/UPDATING. > What version is the default for FreeBSD-8.0 that will soon be released? FreeBSD-8 uses linux -f10- infrastructure ports. -- WBR, Boris Samorodov (bsam) Research Engineer, http://www.ipt.ru Telephone & Internet SP FreeBSD Committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve