Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 15:23:49 +0100 From: "Daniel Mouritsen" <daniel.mouritsen@gmail.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Some questions from a newcomer Message-ID: <bae323940703100623p126ad129t9a247a0f33cc6dd7@mail.gmail.com>
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Hello, I'm playing around with using freebsd for my home server (which used to use linux), and I have a quick question regarding the distributions you can select with sysinstall during the install phase. I've chosen developer(since i wish to use the ports packages, i figured selecting developer might be a good idea to get gcc and such), user and minimal. Just out of curiosity, is does one cancel out the other? i mean, is it really necessary to pick user and minimal if i choose developer? I mean, wont everything in "minimal" be included in "developer"? The reason im asking is, all this server is gonna be running is apache, pf and ntpd to handle the clock. I pretty much want to close down everything else and make as minimal a system as possible. Any suggestions about the layout of this machine? Is developer "overkill"? Also, i was wondering, i tried playing around with portsnap, but dear lord it was slow :D I tried googling for European mirrors close to me, but i haven't had much success, any help with finding a faster portsnap server would be much appreciated Best regards, Daniel Kirkegaard Mouritsen
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