From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 8 17:29:06 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6905516A420 for ; Thu, 8 Nov 2007 17:29:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aryeh.friedman@gmail.com) Received: from rv-out-0910.google.com (rv-out-0910.google.com [209.85.198.185]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3946313C4B3 for ; Thu, 8 Nov 2007 17:29:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aryeh.friedman@gmail.com) Received: by rv-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id l15so186907rvb for ; Thu, 08 Nov 2007 09:29:00 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=AbgN53T+uZ9uuWNVcm6GtugH13mmJ8w+2aC5HNwvJ1Y=; b=tFKA2gVe1KRUFi9r0m2rMLRiaHKW5KegXn8Gu/NVPuvjOmfx8Q4J0FOUtyGAQPCVn1e3jYGWhEXrv1Uj844/Y50XUDsgpiswUyqihWoK98rk1YsKwGLJ+yFRnpjPIzrxfedmXWQWgMOOlCTNfsOYLGKxpJXSJUcFVkwizMzoez8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Hn6bVqo9NVp4PVEqmpnUY/g+WvDo9K2RnR7mA3rRIa61oLQ3QYIP+FGXRJt4JCsXKyr9ZhcsWY2FS798Ta6FjoBdvzlem81C8ub5AgSadKe07mTi6cxLBPJxP/0Pi7RPQJtpeY6KGTGbXARGX5X8ou1txYfiJFSw3IILcqOKZ94= Received: by 10.141.28.12 with SMTP id f12mr404875rvj.1194542939931; Thu, 08 Nov 2007 09:28:59 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.65.107.3 with HTTP; Thu, 8 Nov 2007 09:28:59 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 12:28:59 -0500 From: "Aryeh Friedman" To: tecnologia@expresso.com.br, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" In-Reply-To: <200711081455.39635.cesar@expresso.com.br> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200711081455.39635.cesar@expresso.com.br> Cc: Subject: Re: About Freebsd 7.0 versus 6.3 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: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 17:29:06 -0000 On Nov 8, 2007 11:55 AM, Expresso Digital ISP wrote: > Hi, my name is Cesar. > > I'd like to know what is the diference between 7.0 and 6.3 and why create a > newest version and after old version. 6.X is the last of versions meant primarilly for single processing machines (with some after thought payed to multiprocessing). 7.X is the beginning of the versions specifically designed with multiprocessing/cores in mind Under the hood many things have been changed improved in 7.... the offical recommendation is 6.3 is for people who can *NOT* upgrade to 7 for whatever reason and everyone else should use 7... note as far most people can tell there is no "easy" way to upgrade to 7 if you have 6 installed so you should start with 7