Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 17:47:51 -0600 (MDT) From: Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu> To: Maury Markowitz <maury@OAAI.COM> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Presenting FreeBSD to a Linux Users Group? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9906251744320.12604-100000@peloton.physics.montana.edu> In-Reply-To: <199906252115.RAA23357@OAAI.COM>
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Hi, On Fri, 25 Jun 1999, Maury Markowitz wrote: > > Sounds like it does a lot of what FreeBSD does. > > Can someone be a bit more specific? I don't have easy access to > my Free box now. If anyone can even point me to some online docs > that would be _much_ appreciated. FreeBSD, in addition to the pkg system that got you pico (pine) has a ports system. If you have the ports directory tree (typically in /usr/ports), you can install any of 2200 or so applications by typing "make install" - it will automagically install all dependencies and while building from source that has been patched to work for FreeBSD. Check out http://www.freebsd.org/ports/ or related pages at the handbook (the link to the handbook is on the front page of www.freebsd.org) to find out more. Note also that a new package system is under development and sounds to be mucho better than what I already think is, bar none, the easiest way to install software, that works first shot out, ever! Brett *********************************************************** Brett Taylor brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu * brett@daemonnews.org * * http://www.daemonnews.org/ * *********************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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