Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2003 11:44:43 +0100 From: Paul Robinson <paul@iconoplex.co.uk> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The Old Way Was Better Message-ID: <3F5C5D9B.4030603@iconoplex.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20030908023456.GA3126@online.fr> References: <20030908023456.GA3126@online.fr>
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Rahul Siddharthan wrote: >For around 4 months now I've been mainly using Debian because I couldn't >get FreeBSD to work on my new laptop. > What was the issue, just out of curiosity? >I really like the way they do >things. In a nutshell, they always have *three* branches: > >"stable" -- frozen, only bugfixes go in >"testing" -- stuff in a queue for a "stable" release >"unstable" -- the main development distribution > You're right - that is a nice way to do things. >I don't know how this could work for the FreeBSD base system, which is > There was some discussion several years ago when Jordan was still about, and again a few months back, that making everything packages was a good goal to aim for. It got tied up with the sysinstall bikeshed though. >The DragonFly people seem to have some ambitious goals, > That's an understatment. >and Matt even >mentions Debian as an example of how to do packaging right. I'd like to >give DF a spin, but I may have no better luck on this laptop than with >FreeBSD. > It won't. DF is not that different from FBSD at this stage for the majority of stuff. It certainly isn't going to be sufficiently different to get you to a point of being more likely to install. Whenever FBSD dails, I find Net or Open to save the day most times. -- Paul Robinson
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