From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 13 02:58:10 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA08319 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 13 Aug 1997 02:58:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (gatekeeper.barcode.co.il [192.116.93.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA08307 for ; Wed, 13 Aug 1997 02:57:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from smap@localhost) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (8.8.5/8.6.12) id MAA23236; Wed, 13 Aug 1997 12:56:44 +0300 (IDT) X-Authentication-Warning: gatekeeper.barcode.co.il: smap set sender to using -f Received: from localhost.barcode.co.il(127.0.0.1) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il via smap (V1.3) id sma023233; Wed Aug 13 12:56:35 1997 Message-ID: <33F184AD.429F@barcode.co.il> Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 12:55:57 +0300 From: Nadav Eiron X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4u) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: OFFCDT Peter Lewis CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: References: <2.2.32.19970813012128.00953860@csadfa.cs.adfa.oz.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk OFFCDT Peter Lewis wrote: > > Dear Sir, > > I was wondering, if as simply stated as possible, what is the difference > between versions 2.1.7.1 and 2.2.2 of FreeBSD? > > Regards. > > Peter Lewis Take a look at the release notes file for 2.2.2 for full details (they're accessible through the newsflash and the releases pages on http://www.freebsd.org). Mainly, 2.2.x has a new VM subsystem, which is supposed to greatly improve performance, it has support for ELF Linux binaries, some more devices, a new configuration file structure in /etc and countless other changes that I don't recall off-hand. 2.1.7.1 is supposed to be more time-tested. 2.2.2 has some quirks and for a production server you may want to try a more recent 2.2-RELENG snapshot. Nadav