From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 17 20:42:29 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 73318106568D for ; Mon, 17 Aug 2009 20:42:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andrewlylegould@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f205.google.com (mail-fx0-f205.google.com [209.85.220.205]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01BBA8FC16 for ; Mon, 17 Aug 2009 20:42:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm1 with SMTP id 1so2523347fxm.7 for ; Mon, 17 Aug 2009 13:42:28 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=e1o5AbZRfftlUBt/EobRETvSy/jomxWxaQiowAf0zdE=; b=riAy+FdV/ZWC0XydCWff2UtfBORQH2xf6JuVp1KwufhjyyB/gaGJI/rt8vEzrsTLde bxAJ7ehED/KOFUzffffJLPz4bAnjNrBkw9u4e/jPj3vcvDGA2Th01NPJAEQyqi74ezAl GIVTDkTMvXEzg4um+L3Xhf0ViANcsaud2ND4g= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=mtQMhwQ5T7iSzGi0VdsZ9bRo70VdPmisePV5WqipErwr+/aANhPpk2FI9FklIw7fOY Ey1BKoSkX/V5QH4oriepRCJtUnK0eujX4Em0CrEbrbYRhKVwHCePWCHcJiu+1ABBYXXD gz7p4pwvTNMFPtQtPneyUUFKUjR0D0eDZHwKA= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.161.205 with SMTP id s13mr933689fax.70.1250541748013; Mon, 17 Aug 2009 13:42:28 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4A89BD3E.8020804@toyon.com> References: <4A89BD3E.8020804@toyon.com> Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:42:27 -0500 Message-ID: From: Andrew Gould To: Chris Stankevitz Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Packages available for different FreeBSD versions 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, 17 Aug 2009 20:42:29 -0000 On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Chris Stankevitz wr= ote: > > Hello, > > Hello, I have two questions: > > 1. Is it true that I have the choice to run these versions of FreeBSD: > > 8.0 CURRENT > 7.2 RELEASE > 7.2 STABLE > 7.2 CURRENT > 7.1 RELEASE > 7.1 STABLE > 7.1 CURRENT > 7.0 RELEASE > 7.0 STABLE > 7.0 CURRENT > 6.4 RELEASE > 6.4 STABLE > 6.4 CURRENT You can find links to directories with ISO images of various RELEASES here: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ Some older releases have been moved to archives. Once you're installed a RELEASE, you can update it to STABLE by updating the operating system. More information about updating can be found in the online handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ more specifically here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/updating-upgradin= g.html > > 2. For each of the versions above, what version of GCC and VirtualBox is > available? =A0I don't intend for this questions to directly be answered -= - I'm > hoping for a site that lists the versions of all packages available for a > particular version of FreeBSD like this page for gentoo: > http://packages.gentoo.org/package/www-client/mozilla-firefox The ports system, and the versions of applications available, changes with time and is not directly associated with the core operating system version number. Once you've installed the operating system, you could choose to keep the operating system the same, but continue to update the ports system. You can find application binaries that were built at the time the OS version was released here: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/ They are arranged by computer architecture and release number. There are also stable directories for certain releases. More information about various RELEASES and their features can be found her= e: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/ > > Thank you, > > Chris Best of luck, Andrew