From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jul 18 13:50:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from scotty.masternet.it (scotty.masternet.it [194.184.65.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6ACAA14C58 for ; Sun, 18 Jul 1999 13:50:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gmarco@scotty.masternet.it) Received: from suzy (ppp-massa52-64-14.iol.it [212.52.64.14]) by scotty.masternet.it (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id WAA00533 for ; Sun, 18 Jul 1999 22:48:24 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from gmarco@scotty.masternet.it) Message-Id: <4.1.19990718224838.01324160@194.184.65.4> X-Sender: gmarco@194.184.65.2 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Sun, 18 Jul 1999 22:51:32 +0200 To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: Gianmarco Giovannelli Subject: Re: Sanity regained -- back with the best In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.19990718101705.00ccb720@localhost> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 18/07/99, Brett Glass wrote: > >Yep, the only one that's better, IMHO, is Debian's; among other things, it lets >you bring things in directly from a Web browser (such as Lynx). Speaking of >which, >what is the status of FreeBSD's new ports/packages system? Debian ??? I tried to install the 2.1 and I think the dselect front end is too much difficult also for an average Unix user... They say apt is better , but in the installation I (IT) maked it wasn't .... What changes are expected in our ports system? Best Regards, Gianmarco Giovannelli , "Unix expert since yesterday" http://www.giovannelli.it/~gmarco http://www2.masternet.it To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message