Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 15:38:14 -0400 (EDT) From: doug@safeport.com To: Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> Cc: Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav <des@des.no>, Claude Menski <claude.menski@gmail.com>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: I like Ubuntu Message-ID: <20070414151719.D73976@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <20070414182309.GB302@demeter.hydra> References: <2a4057fc0704131021t60249c62k4107ee6cf9f1fb8f@mail.gmail.com> <86mz1ckqlc.fsf@dwp.des.no> <20070413183656.E73976@fledge.watson.org> <86tzvjz2dr.fsf@dwp.des.no> <20070414182309.GB302@demeter.hydra>
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On Sat, 14 Apr 2007, Chad Perrin wrote: > On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 12:17:20PM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote: >> doug@safeport.com writes: >>> First my experience with [Free]BSD as a server completely mirrors >>> Dag-Erling's observation, it [mostly] just works. I started with BSDI >>> switching to FreeBSD around 3.5. I think it is also true that >>> depending on your hardware a FreeBSD workstation or laptop can be a >>> bit of a challenge. >> >> My issues with FreeBSD as a desktop mostly come from the difficulty of >> installing software and keeping it up-to-date: 'pkg_add -r' and >> 'portupgrade -aP' simply can't hold a candle to 'apt-get install' and >> 'apt-get dist-upgrade'. > > What do you find lacking in the FreeBSD approach? I'm a relatively > recent transplant from Debian, and my experience is that FreeBSD > provides better, more predictable, and more customizable results, > without increasing the difficulty or reducing the convenience at all. As far as this goes nothing. I use FreeBSD exclusively on production servers, and workstations. My laptop I dual boot with windows which I only use to duplicate costomer problems and keep up with the latest (and greatest?) changes to the Outlooks. > Granted, I haven't really tried the package-based software management > options for FreeBSD in any depth -- I'm mostly installing from source at > this point -- but thus far I haven't any reason to expect package-based > installation to be any less easily managed than source-based installs. > Here (I think) there are some things that could be better. The installation can be tricky depending on one's background, but I did not follow the maxum, if you don't like it, make it better. Portupgrade does not work for me because all my desktops are too small, too slow. In a (my) perfect world portmanager would allow the use of packages. For some the fact that flash, java, and openoffice can be difficult to install are issues. I am an advocate for the FreeBSD desktop.
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