From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 28 09:52:13 2006 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 1668D16A51B for ; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 09:52:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tom@tomking.com) Received: from omr1.networksolutionsemail.com (omr1.networksolutionsemail.com [205.178.146.51]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A95143D64 for ; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 09:52:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tom@tomking.com) Received: from mail.networksolutionsemail.com (ns-omr1.mgt.hosting.dc2.netsol.com [10.49.6.64]) by omr1.networksolutionsemail.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id k6S9q6kq005294 for ; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 05:52:06 -0400 Received: (qmail 32336 invoked by uid 78); 28 Jul 2006 09:52:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO kings.houston.rr.com) (24.162.21.120) by 10.49.36.64 with SMTP; 28 Jul 2006 09:52:06 -0000 Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 04:52:21 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: "Tom King" Organization: TomKing.com Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=iso-8859-15 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: User-Agent: Opera Mail/9.00 (Win32) Subject: What is difference between FreeBSD 5.5 and 6.1? 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: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 09:52:13 -0000 What is difference between FreeBSD 5.5 and 6.1? Why two new versions at same time? Is FreeBSD Unix, Linux or something elese? Do Solaris programs or Linux graphical programs run on FreeBSD? Does it make more sense to port from Windows directly to Mac OS X or to FreeBSD first? What is the development framework and IDE of choice for FreeBSD develoopment (Eclipse, NetBeans, Trolltech, etc.)? What does FreeBSD offer over Solaris and/or Red Hat Linux? Thanks! Tom King tom@tomking.com 713-702-5578