Date: Fri, 9 Jul 1999 15:14:45 -0400 From: "Person, Roderick" <personrp@ccbh.com> To: 'matt' <matt@MLINK.NET>, "Person, Roderick" <personrp@ccbh.com> Cc: 'Nate' <publisher@laptop.ompages.com>, gkshenaut@ucdavis.edu, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: FreeLinux (Debian/GNU BSD) Message-ID: <576A688A7DA7D011899B00805FEA1AFF6FDAEF@sych02.isdip.upmc.edu>
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Maybe this has to do with how installed. As I said over the internet. The download the port tree - when half of the stuff I'll never use just was a pain to me. Now I will admit I missed alot of stuff at the begining of my FreeBSD exploration. I don't know why it took me so long to find the right way but it did. I really like FreeBSD, even more that Linux. But, the problems I have had with it so far keep me firmly grounded in Debian! > -----Original Message----- > From: matt [SMTP:matt@MLINK.NET] > Sent: Friday, July 09, 1999 3:07 PM > To: Person, Roderick > Cc: 'Nate'; gkshenaut@ucdavis.edu; questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: RE: FreeLinux (Debian/GNU BSD) > > On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Person, Roderick wrote: > > : This, IMHO, is a great idea!!! I have been playing with FreeBSD for some > : months now. And the kernel Kicks Ass!!! It just 'feels' better too. But > the > : package installation and management is terrible. It took me at least 3 > weeks > : to figure it out. People are always saying how hard it is to install > Debian > : by dselect, FreeBSD is a nightmare. I hope this does go somewhere. In > fact I > : think I go home and experiment with porting Debian stuff to FreeBSD! > > Have you gone mad? FreeBSD's ports system is the best I have ever seen, I > have ran Linux(RedHat, Slack, Debian), OpenBSD, FreeBSD.. I stuck with > FreeBSD for a damn good reason. How difficult is it to "cd /usr/ports ; > make search key=<what you are looking for>" It don't get much easier then > that people.. I'm in love with the ports tree, and I'd hate to see it > trashed for some poor[*] precompiled packaging system. > > [big snip] > > Matt > > * In my opinion. > > -- > matt@MLINK.NET > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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