From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Mar 2 16:44:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from stumpy.dannyland.org (danman.isdn.uiuc.edu [192.17.16.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 693C014D13 for ; Tue, 2 Mar 1999 16:44:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dannyman@stumpy.dannyland.org) Received: (qmail 15519 invoked by uid 1000); 3 Mar 1999 00:44:24 -0000 Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 18:44:24 -0600 From: dannyman To: Brett Glass Cc: Brett Taylor , Bill Fumerola , Adam Turoff , freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bsd vs. linux and NT chart Message-ID: <19990302184424.C15210@stumpy.dannyland.org> References: <4.1.19990302154522.03fb3730@localhost> <4.1.19990302161355.00ad66b0@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95i In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990302161355.00ad66b0@localhost>; from Brett Glass on Tue, Mar 02, 1999 at 04:20:49PM -0700 X-Loop: djhoward@uiuc.edu X-URL: http://www.dannyland.org/~dannyman/ Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Mar 02, 1999 at 04:20:49PM -0700, Brett Glass wrote: > Yes, 2.2.6 is less than a year old, so there SHOULD be a ports tree for it. > There's nothing more frustrating than running /stand/sysinstall to grab a port > and discovering that the ports for your version are gone only a few months > after you installed. And you know why so few people use those "upgrade [...] Ugh, that's when you go to the bloody config screen and change your RELEASE to 2.2.8. Yes, I think this could be more intuitive, but it works well enough right now. ;) -danny -- dannyman - http://www.dannyland.org/~dannyman/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message