From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 26 6:59:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from grillolja.cs.umu.se (grillolja.cs.umu.se [130.239.40.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAE6637B400 for ; Wed, 26 Jun 2002 06:59:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gren.cs.umu.se (gren.cs.umu.se [130.239.40.187]) (using TLSv1 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by grillolja.cs.umu.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA2719FEB; Wed, 26 Jun 2002 15:59:11 +0200 (MEST) Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 15:59:11 +0200 (MEST) From: Paul Everlund To: David Kramer Cc: Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg , Subject: Re: FreeBSD, Linux or Solaris In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 Wed, 26 Jun 2002, David Kramer wrote: > I have to go through the collection of ports and make sure everything I > need is there, but I'm sure it is. BTW, is there a way to check what > software is installed on your box? Is there an automated way of > uninstalling ports? I couldn't find this info on freebsd.org. Take a closer look at pkg_info, pkg_delete and pkg_add. You can also delete an installed port by going to /usr/ports/*category*/*app*/, then make deinstall. > One of the aspects touted as FreeBSD's strenghts, the fact that all the > software comes from one place, can also be seen as a weakness. I could > get RPM's for almost anything imaginable, because if one website doesn't > have it, another one will. For instance, Webmin 0.980 is available as of > a few weeks ago, but the latest port is 0.970. The packages for several > Linux distros is already available. There are pros and cons to the ports system. I personally think there's more good than bad. I'm not sure, but maybe there's a utility in the ports hierarchy that can deal with rpm's? Or maybe, use configure/make/ make install of the source? The question, which system is best, I can not answer. Have only installed Linux once, and did use it for two hours, then did an uninstall. :-) Good luck chosing the most appropriate OS for the task at hand! Best regards, Paul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message