Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 14:14:29 +0100 From: RW <list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newbie Experience Message-ID: <200609121414.30682.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> In-Reply-To: <8a0028260609120316q7ab0d7bcydcaec44fea42e325@mail.gmail.com> References: <20060911211241.GA2211@mech-aslap33.men.bris.ac.uk> <20060911222038.73258.qmail@web83104.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <8a0028260609120316q7ab0d7bcydcaec44fea42e325@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tuesday 12 September 2006 11:16, Jeff Rollin wrote: > I'm unconvinced you could take FreeBSD 4 box and run the kernel from 6.1 on > it without changing anything else. No, but the fact that you upgrade world+kernel in one go helps. FreeBSD also mantains a good level of back-compatibility. The 6x kernels have back compatibility options, and when you upgrade, the libraries from previous major releases are still usable by your packages. There are also compatibility ports if you want to install binaries built against previous versions.
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