From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 28 13:03:29 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 A0F2716A4E2 for ; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 13:03:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B89943D7D for ; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 13:03:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1G6RzR-0004O6-CF for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 15:02:53 +0200 Received: from 87.218.70.165 ([87.218.70.165]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 15:02:53 +0200 Received: from matiassurdi by 87.218.70.165 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 15:02:53 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Matias Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 15:03:57 +0200 Lines: 66 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8Bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 87.218.70.165 User-Agent: KNode/0.10.2 Sender: news Subject: Re: 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 13:03:29 -0000 Tom King escribió: > What is difference between FreeBSD 5.5 and 6.1? You can view the differences yourself here: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.1R/relnotes.html http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.5R/relnotes.html > > Why two new versions at same time? 5.5 is a maintenance release of the 5.x branch, if you've 5.x boxes and don't want to migrate to 6.x , then you still have security fixes and patches for your bsd box. > > Is FreeBSD Unix, Linux or something elese? > FreeBSD is derived from the original BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution), look here for more info: http://www.freebsd.org/about.html > Do Solaris programs or Linux graphical programs run on FreeBSD? > mm.. solaris.. I'm not sure, but think that mos of them will... for linux, there is a "linux compatibility mode" that will run most (if not all) linux programs. > Does it make more sense to port from Windows directly to Mac OS X or to > FreeBSD first? It depends on what will you use that box for..... if you wish a rock-solid internet server, then freeBSD is the way to go, if you just want to play Warcraft, then use windows. > > What is the development framework and IDE of choice for FreeBSD > develoopment (Eclipse, NetBeans, Trolltech, etc.)? Also depends, on what you want to do, and what programming language you use/know. For web applications I like Ruby on Rails, for desktop apps I think that trolltech's QT are one of the bests options today. > > What does FreeBSD offer over Solaris and/or Red Hat Linux? It's BSD licence, a great community and lots of more things that you can read in www.freebsd.org good luck > > Thanks! > > > Tom King > tom@tomking.com > 713-702-5578 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"