From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 28 14:44:35 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 17D3E16A4ED for ; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 14:44:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd.ph@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.172]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70B9743D78 for ; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 14:43:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd.ph@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id m2so837967uge for ; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 07:43:53 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=jS4vPUSP07vQEKBBW/wIrHd0IzGWNJvvX3TIn1hQdUTuOx4ANj64fM0e5Rl4mYxgdJBrX2oCWyKUiSA6W853DaaCuqqGkJ8LQ5i1g3OSSl0SUz5YxDKusT/wlWAGZTKUZCZoJx5bMffHQcCs6+0jOPJC9CQuFBGkyh2Xi7m+BP0= Received: by 10.78.180.18 with SMTP id c18mr911182huf; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 07:43:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.141.18 with HTTP; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 07:43:53 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 22:43:53 +0800 From: "jan gestre" To: "Tom King" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 14:44:35 -0000 On 7/28/06, Tom King wrote: > > What is difference between FreeBSD 5.5 and 6.1? the kernel, 6.1 supports more new devices Why two new versions at same time? 5.5 is what we call legacy releases, i think the development is still going although they stop releasing new versions based on 5 branch Is FreeBSD Unix, Linux or something elese? FreeBSD is not Linux and vice versa, both however are unix like operating systems with BSD based on the Berkeley Software distribution. Do Solaris programs or Linux graphical programs run on FreeBSD? some linux binaries runs on FreeBSD, some say it runs better on BSD than Linux :D Does it make more sense to port from Windows directly to Mac OS X or to > FreeBSD first? what do you mean port? migrate? if that is the case then FreeBSD is the path to take. 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? its free 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" >