Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 14:04:59 -0400 From: Jeff Palmer <questions@totaldiver.net> To: Simon Gao <gao@schrodinger.com>, questions@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What's so compelling about FreeBSD? Message-ID: <7.0.1.0.0.20061016140214.01938450@totaldiver.net> In-Reply-To: <4533C553.3040609@schrodinger.com> References: <af8b40ce0610151526h6aba1785mb77eb2a76e69fdfa@mail.gmail.com> <80f4f2b20610151556l18c5adcci4196ab107b6b9907@mail.gmail.com> <4533C553.3040609@schrodinger.com>
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At 01:45 PM 10/16/2006, Simon Gao wrote: >I have a few FreeBSD machine from 4.x to 5.x. I have asked people how to >upgrade them to latest version 6.x cleanly. All I was told is that I >need to wipe them out and reinstall. However, this is not the case with >Gentoo Linux. With Gentoo, version release does not matter that much, >you can always keep your system up to date if you like. Of cause, you >can also choose staying at a certain version. > >Linux supports more devices than FreeBSD, especially new devices. Whoever gave you the 'wipe and reinstall' advice for the 5.x to 6.x migration was insane. 4.x to 6.x is a pain, due to major changes in /dev (5.x and later use devfs, 4.x doesn't) but can still be done. but the 5.6 to 6.x migration is fairly straight forward with a buildworld and a couple minor caveats as noticed in UPDATING. Jeff P.S. while 4.x to 5.x is possible, I'd still personally do a wipe/reinstall. 5.x to 6.x, I'd build world.
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