Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 16:49:40 -0500 From: Mike Hernandez <sequethin@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Regarding "whi" Message-ID: <20051122214940.GB10201@dementia.beyondnormal.net> In-Reply-To: <200511222139.19859.deejy-pooh@ntlworld.com> References: <200511222139.19859.deejy-pooh@ntlworld.com>
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On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 09:39:19PM +0000, Uncle Deejy-Pooh wrote: > I may be guilty of mis-reading this, but the thought of downloading @ > compiling anything of any complexity fills me with horror !?!? By the time > KDE is ready to use, you'd have lost the will to live ! > It's not so bad on a recent machine... I installed 6.0, then rebuilt it all so it would be compiled with -O2 -march=pentium4. Installed all my apps from the ports tree. Didn't take too long really. It was actually really fast, imho. But then again I've spent a few years building linuxfromscratch which is a long long long process if you actually read through the text of the book and copy & paste the commands by hand. Building FreeBSD turned out to be so easy it felt like I was cheating :) Oh and it just WORKS when it's done, which is a plus. Mike PS though there are fundamental differences between bsd and linux, and you may also harbor some penguin hate... I suggest you try lfs at least once if you want to see how the gnu tools and stuff work together. It's actually quite interesting.
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