From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 30 12:14:55 2005 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 2690E16A41F for ; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 12:14:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from aiolos.otenet.gr (aiolos.otenet.gr [195.170.0.93]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 561FF43D46 for ; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 12:14:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from orion.daedalusnetworks.priv (aris.bedc.ondsl.gr [62.103.39.226]) by aiolos.otenet.gr (8.13.4/8.13.4/Debian-1) with SMTP id j7UCEppe013988; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 15:14:52 +0300 Received: from orion.daedalusnetworks.priv (orion [127.0.0.1]) by orion.daedalusnetworks.priv (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7UCEpEO091616; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 15:14:51 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by orion.daedalusnetworks.priv (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id j7UCEpJ4091588; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 15:14:51 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) X-Authentication-Warning: orion.daedalusnetworks.priv: keramida set sender to keramida@ceid.upatras.gr using -f Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 15:14:51 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Mario Carugno Message-ID: <20050830121451.GD81035@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> References: <2792860b050830050121a439b5@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <2792860b050830050121a439b5@mail.gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: newbie to fbsd 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: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 12:14:55 -0000 On 2005-08-30 09:01, Mario Carugno wrote: > Hi there, i am now a Debian user, but curious about FreeBSD. Here are > some questions: > * I don't have a fast internet connection, so i have to get the CDROM > distribution. The question is: > ALL packages found in http://www.freebsd.org/ports/index.html are > included in the CDROMs, or they have only some of them ? Some of them. The FreeBSD ports collection now has more than 13000 entries, and some of the packages use several MBs of space. Having all the ports built and distributed as part of the release ISO images would require a huge number of disks! > * What's the difference between 5.4 and 4.11 releases ? Why 4.11 CDROM > distribution have 4 CDs and the later 5.4 have only 2 CDs ? The FreeBSD documentation set includes a fairly recent article that may help you decide which version is the best for you: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/version-guide/ Other useful articles and books about FreeBSD can be found here: http://www.freebsd.org/docs.html