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Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 14:42:18 +0200
From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
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Subject: Re: Easiest desktop BSD distro
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On Thu, 31 Mar 2011 04:10:29 -0700 (PDT), "four.harrisons@googlemail.com" <four.harrisons@googlemail.com> wrote:
> I left Linux a while ago, but at that time compiling and
> installing a new kernel on Red Hat or Slackware (to stick
> within my experience) was significantly harder to do than
> "make buildkernel; make installkernel", once you had it
> figured.

Oh, on FreeBSD it's a lot easier than that: "make kernel". :-)

See /usr/src/Makefile's comment header where the build
targets get explained.


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Polytropon
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