Date: Mon, 05 May 2008 11:56:23 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Micha=EBl_Le_Barbier?= <michael.le_barbier@laposte.net> To: prad <prad@towardsfreedom.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: living with freebsd Message-ID: <481ED9C7.4050209@laposte.net> In-Reply-To: <20080504221223.20b5827e@gom.home> References: <20080504221223.20b5827e@gom.home>
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prad wrote: > i'd like to know how people live with freebsd. > It will soon be the ninth anniversary of my union with FreeBSD. I have been pleased of it, all the time. > do you use only ports or only packages or a mixture? > do you upgrade from version to version using freebsd tools or do it > manually? > do you have a different approach regarding the above depending on > whether it is for a server or a desktop? I use FreeBSD in the `desktop' setting, I do a lot of TeX, programming, and scientific computing. In my own views, I segregate applications in three groups: -- the zombie group, consisting of applications I rarely use, and do not care to keep up to date (almost everything); -- the living group, consisting of applications I use often but moderately care to keep up to date (Emacs and seamonkey); -- the hot group, consisting of applications I am very interested in (e.g. some libraries I use in my programs). I do not care to update the zombie group. I will maybe consider updating ports in the living group, either for security reasons or for some new functionnality I heard of and I really want to have. It is not unlikely I update ports in the hot group every time there is a new major release is available. I do the base install from packages, and use portupgrade for updating my software, after I have read /usr/ports/UPDATING. My primary goal is having a working system for a minimal maintenance cost, the way I do works pretty well for me; but some others may have better ways to deal with this. -- Cheers, Michaël
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