Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 22:57:18 -0600 From: Erik Osterholm <erik-freebsd@erikosterholm.org> To: Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Linux "equivalent" to freebsd Message-ID: <20070302045718.GA59913@idoru.cepheid.org> In-Reply-To: <20070302085541.602eb85f@localhost> References: <20070301143621.36433.qmail@web35204.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <45E726B6.4050507@schrodinger.com> <20070302085541.602eb85f@localhost>
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On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 08:55:41AM +1100, Norberto Meijome wrote: > On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 11:17:10 -0800 Simon Gao <gao@schrodinger.com> > wrote: > > > Why not give Gentoo Linux (www.gentoo.org) a try. By using Gentoo > > Linux, you not only get the similar port system, portage, as with > > FreeBSD, but also enjoy all the benefits Linux can provide. Gentoo > > Linux is very flexible and has a very good support community. > > risking making this a discussion about linux : I've used gentoo... > portage is OK.... but is nowhere near as good as the ports > collection, IMHO. First, you need to build everything from scratch, > no binary packages. There is an annoying split of portage sections > (dev | production | good | bad | pink ..whatever), that someone else > puts on you, rather than allow you to chose what to use. And masked > ports?! -USE flags are confusing, to me (global? local? ) > Anyway..maybe I haven't got the patience needed for linux....i > rather get on with life :D No binary packages? Could have fooled me. From: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/faq.xml#ebuilds "For full ISO releases, we create a full suite of binary packages in an enhanced .tbz2 format, which is .tar.bz2 compatible with meta-information attached to the end of the file. These can be used to install a working (though not fully optimized) version of the package quickly and efficiently." Erik
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