From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 23 3:14:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-27-149-77.mmcable.com [24.27.149.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 352E937B479 for ; Mon, 23 Oct 2000 03:14:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 16585 invoked by uid 100); 23 Oct 2000 10:14:29 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14836.3973.771492.739156@guru.mired.org> Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 05:14:29 -0500 (CDT) To: Yifeng Xu Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux In-Reply-To: <109669924@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Yifeng Xu writes: > Yes, I have same question, if my FreeBSD machine is > not connected to Internet, how do I upgrade my > machine? > there just hasn't a complete package collection which > both includes system and application programs. unlike > Redhat, I can download a new version package and > install it, no matter it's system util or application. > CTM? no, I don't like it, why every time a bug fixed > program should be upgraded from source code? stupid, I > am a user not a computer expert, source code is > meanless for me. I can't tell if you want the application packages or the OS distribution. If you want application packages, they are in ports//packages-/, where is either i386 or alpha, and is 3.5-stable, 4-stable, 5-current, etc. If you want the OS, ISO images of the release distributions can be found on the FTP mirrors in ../releases//ISO-IMAGES. That's the thing to grab for a new version of the OS.