From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 10 15:25:22 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BA9616A402 for ; Sat, 10 Mar 2007 15:25:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mikej@rogers.com) Received: from smtp104.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp104.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com [206.190.36.82]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E038F13C442 for ; Sat, 10 Mar 2007 15:25:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mikej@rogers.com) Received: (qmail 19662 invoked from network); 10 Mar 2007 14:58:40 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=rogers.com; h=Received:X-YMail-OSG:Message-ID:Date:From:User-Agent:MIME-Version:To:CC:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=JsNvWiCTnNjZx6Xvd61lJvsQKehfffrJLmvuLeUpWMyBUhBKPzjlMXm640RI4R9OGf02lJXBmjeNC/K9MhItjb6b7RDsZNZurA9wtC18/6uS31TKTxcDeHJN7H+prALPhq//fgPvaWqr+dBhaPV/MNoz0KSnnLNYd/tX2i21FB8= ; Received: from unknown (HELO ?172.16.0.200?) (mikej@rogers.com@74.111.253.239 with plain) by smtp104.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 10 Mar 2007 14:58:40 -0000 X-YMail-OSG: Uk5u1.gVM1mrm3CnDsAra43u_nIcAvtks9Qwfn65fK5i1dXEhVQEyTaZYDBSb._Kbg-- Message-ID: <45F2C73C.1090500@rogers.com> Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 09:57:00 -0500 From: Mike Jakubik User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (Windows/20070221) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Mouritsen References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Some questions from a newcomer X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 15:25:22 -0000 Daniel Mouritsen wrote: > 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"? > You don't need the developer packages to compile or use the ports. I would recommend you choose the basic user option instead. > 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 You may want to try cvsup instead.