From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 10 14:53:05 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6844A16A400 for ; Sat, 10 Mar 2007 14:53:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from daniel.mouritsen@gmail.com) Received: from mu-out-0910.google.com (mu-out-0910.google.com [209.85.134.184]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2E8D13C48E for ; Sat, 10 Mar 2007 14:53:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from daniel.mouritsen@gmail.com) Received: by mu-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id g7so1415162muf for ; Sat, 10 Mar 2007 06:53:03 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; b=aN7gsOzzE2YCdjt9RoOOHUseKwbKXLQgfey1fmurI/N92/VwmcJVMhDB0wqFLr1hVjHir24zWUWU9ShcL9+a02YcCJ/XZ5Fuj8cx74j6IfnfwGGwpg0IOcB5pJLxrHcmapgrmVRJenJzrlu2r9lrSYKhIa+EZCcaTJU09qxPtP0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; b=aSKBlpaDYaj/yBaiqyB1O293iw9hfP4iIjbgSuRNPawXhIyMgpzhFiAvgPgW1XQgxWq/olRoR0Bc6QRWD1u8Cx3aQZSubowa7yMZySm171x4ITHD0PlyStbx77PCkK5EbfnqRkBZD/8BZ9/5fHRhXlkOJGbTQNxst4KcEeZQJ6I= Received: by 10.82.152.16 with SMTP id z16mr4946447bud.1173536629937; Sat, 10 Mar 2007 06:23:49 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.82.191.20 with HTTP; Sat, 10 Mar 2007 06:23:49 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 15:23:49 +0100 From: "Daniel Mouritsen" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Some questions from a newcomer X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 14:53:05 -0000 Hello, I'm playing around with using freebsd for my home server (which used to use linux), and I have a quick question regarding the distributions you can select with sysinstall during the install phase. I've chosen developer(since i wish to use the ports packages, i figured selecting developer might be a good idea to get gcc and such), user and minimal. Just out of curiosity, is does one cancel out the other? i mean, is it really necessary to pick user and minimal if i choose developer? I mean, wont everything in "minimal" be included in "developer"? The reason im asking is, all this server is gonna be running is apache, pf and ntpd to handle the clock. I pretty much want to close down everything else and make as minimal a system as possible. Any suggestions about the layout of this machine? Is developer "overkill"? Also, i was wondering, i tried playing around with portsnap, but dear lord it was slow :D I tried googling for European mirrors close to me, but i haven't had much success, any help with finding a faster portsnap server would be much appreciated Best regards, Daniel Kirkegaard Mouritsen