Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:42:27 -0500 From: Andrew Gould <andrewlylegould@gmail.com> To: Chris Stankevitz <cstankevitz@toyon.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Packages available for different FreeBSD versions Message-ID: <d356c5630908171342m4c8469dcw6a64c5d2a5990457@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4A89BD3E.8020804@toyon.com> References: <4A89BD3E.8020804@toyon.com>
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On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Chris Stankevitz<cstankevitz@toyon.com> wr= ote: > > Hello, > > Hello, I have two questions: > > 1. Is it true that I have the choice to run these versions of FreeBSD: > > 8.0 CURRENT > 7.2 RELEASE > 7.2 STABLE > 7.2 CURRENT > 7.1 RELEASE > 7.1 STABLE > 7.1 CURRENT > 7.0 RELEASE > 7.0 STABLE > 7.0 CURRENT > 6.4 RELEASE > 6.4 STABLE > 6.4 CURRENT You can find links to directories with ISO images of various RELEASES here: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ Some older releases have been moved to archives. Once you're installed a RELEASE, you can update it to STABLE by updating the operating system. More information about updating can be found in the online handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ more specifically here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/updating-upgradin= g.html > > 2. For each of the versions above, what version of GCC and VirtualBox is > available? =A0I don't intend for this questions to directly be answered -= - I'm > hoping for a site that lists the versions of all packages available for a > particular version of FreeBSD like this page for gentoo: > http://packages.gentoo.org/package/www-client/mozilla-firefox The ports system, and the versions of applications available, changes with time and is not directly associated with the core operating system version number. Once you've installed the operating system, you could choose to keep the operating system the same, but continue to update the ports system. You can find application binaries that were built at the time the OS version was released here: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/ They are arranged by computer architecture and release number. There are also stable directories for certain releases. More information about various RELEASES and their features can be found her= e: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/ > > Thank you, > > Chris Best of luck, Andrew
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