From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Mar 2 17:52:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A606D14CE0 for ; Tue, 2 Mar 1999 17:52:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: (from brett@localhost) by lariat.lariat.org (8.8.8/8.8.6) id SAA06708; Tue, 2 Mar 1999 18:52:01 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.1.19990302183847.00a22f00@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 18:40:16 -0700 To: dannyman From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: bsd vs. linux and NT chart Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19990302192729.D15210@stumpy.dannyland.org> References: <4.1.19990302181700.00c56d10@localhost> <4.1.19990302161355.00ad66b0@localhost> <4.1.19990302154522.03fb3730@localhost> <19990302184424.C15210@stumpy.dannyland.org> <4.1.19990302181700.00c56d10@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 07:27 PM 3/2/99 -0600, dannyman wrote: >Uhhhh, no ... if you try to install something for 2.2.8, you're not going to >get any ELFs. That's why we have -RELEASE versions. True. But since the newest versions of the ports are all in ELF format, what you'll get will be old. Again, there ought to be a way to get the most up-to-date ports for any RELEASE version that's up to a year old. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message