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From: linimon@lonesome.com (Mark Linimon)
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Subject: Re: Whats the difference
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On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 10:26:23AM -0700, Mihir Sanghavi wrote:
> My company is using BSD 4.7 currently and I would like it to change
> to 5 or 6. What technical difficulties might I face or how much code
> would be needed to re-written.

Please see the article "Choosing the FreeBSD Version That Is Right For You", at
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/version-guide/index.html ,
to see if it helps your decision.

mcl