From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 27 22:58: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (cfedde.dsl.frii.net [216.17.139.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C47CF37B403 for ; Wed, 27 Jun 2001 22:58:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cfedde@fedde.littleton.co.us) Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fedde.littleton.co.us (8.11.4/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f5S5vv166958; Wed, 27 Jun 2001 23:57:57 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200106280557.f5S5vv166958@fedde.littleton.co.us> To: "A. Tatsyuk" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: about kernel In-Reply-To: From: Chris Fedde Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 23:57:57 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 28 Jun 2001 06:57:06 +0300 "A. Tatsyuk" wrote: +------------------ | Using Linux (Mandrake 8.0 distribution) I knew that to update my system I | just need to download new kernel from kernel.org and compile it (if the | kernel is not very changed) . But it's not all clear for me with FreeBSD. Is | it possible to update system by downloading only new kernel, or kernel and | system programs are not independent there? +------------------ The kernel may be maintained separately from the kernel within reason. You have essentially three choices with freebsd. -release, -stable or -current. Which you choose has a lot to do with your acceptance of risk. If you do not have access to the FreeBSD handbook that came with your installation you can find it at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ The specific details you might be interested in may be found at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/current-stable.html Good Luck -- Chris Fedde To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message