From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 10 14:23:14 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76520106566B for ; Mon, 10 Sep 2012 14:23:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from germaniak@outlook.com) Received: from bay0-omc1-s7.bay0.hotmail.com (bay0-omc1-s7.bay0.hotmail.com [65.54.190.18]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 609E38FC08 for ; Mon, 10 Sep 2012 14:23:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from BAY002-W17 ([65.54.190.60]) by bay0-omc1-s7.bay0.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.4675); Mon, 10 Sep 2012 07:22:07 -0700 Message-ID: X-Originating-IP: [68.43.224.227] From: Allen Kenner To: FreeBSD Advocacy Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2012 10:22:08 -0400 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <504D83DE.1040801@FreeBSD.org> References: , <504D83DE.1040801@FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 10 Sep 2012 14:22:07.0688 (UTC) FILETIME=[A8990C80:01CD8F5F] Subject: RE: Spreading the word X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2012 14:23:14 -0000 ---------------------------------------- > Date: Mon=2C 10 Sep 2012 07:08:30 +0100 > From: matthew@FreeBSD.org > To: germaniak@outlook.com > CC: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.org > Subject: Re: Spreading the word > > On 09/09/2012 22:09=2C Allen Kenner wrote: > > Is anyone here aware of any work being done to make it so that > > Updating=2C Patching=2C and so on=2C on FreeBSD=2C becomes as easy as i= t is > > on PC-BSD? Personally I'm VERY biased towards FreeBSD=2C and I'd switch > > to it completely and no longer even bother much with Linux if I could > > just get it to where I could do security fixes on Ports without > > having to go through such a long process. > > There is this rather shiny little project: > > http://wiki.freebsd.org/pkgng > > I'd call it quietly revolutionary=2C except that it hasn't been > particularly quiet. There's been plenty of discussion in freebsd-ports@ > and freebsd-current@ as well as what's linked to from that Wiki page. Hello! Thanks so much for the reply=2C I appreciate it. I actually started reading= about this just a little bit yesterday. I'd never even heard of this thing= before=2C and yesterday=2C it was getting kind of late=2C and I came acros= s that and saved the link I was reading so I could pick up where I left off= again today=2C but I didn't have the Wiki link=2C so thanks much for that. >From what I've read=2C it seems to be what I'm looking for=2C and I appreci= ate it very much! =