Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 19:36:44 -0400 From: Mike Jakubik <mikej@rogers.com> To: Mihir Sanghavi <msanghavi@cscmail.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Whats the difference Message-ID: <44A1C10C.3020504@rogers.com> In-Reply-To: <3D473AD33FF36F49864926324D4B72A57C1581@csc-mail.la.casciencectr.org> References: <3D473AD33FF36F49864926324D4B72A57C1581@csc-mail.la.casciencectr.org>
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Mihir Sanghavi wrote: > Hi, > > I am a new member to FreeBSD on the whole. I would like to know the > differences between FreeBSD 4.7, 5.X and 6.1. 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. I do understand that these are too broad questions but any > sort of input would be helpful at this stage. Please email me back to > mihir.sanghavi@gmail.com. Thanking everyone in advance. > There are many improvements in FreeBSD 6 over 4, specially for new hardware and SMP systems (multi cpu or dual core cpus). If you have an old machine, which is not connected to an external network then there probably inst any good reason to upgrade, but i would consider it in the near future, as official support for 4.x has been dropped. I cant say what code you need to rewrite, as i don't know what application you are using.
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