Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 21:56:45 +0200 From: Claus Guttesen <kometen@gmail.com> To: Phares Kariuki <pkariuki@gmail.com> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why Move . . . Message-ID: <b41c7552050528125650ff255e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <daeae367050528014344bad58@mail.gmail.com> References: <daeae367050528014344bad58@mail.gmail.com>
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> Im currently running fedora core 2. I was informed about this list by a > friend running freebsd. Now what I wanted to ask is whether any one of yo= u > has used any redhat flavours, if so, what is the distinct advantage of > moving to freebsd ( i have never used it), i cant just migrate because th= e > machines I have access to are production machines. If you can run your specific app(s] on FreeBSD one distinct attribute on it's own could make you "switch", and that's the ports-collection. So install FreeBSD, add your self to the wheel-group so you can become root, cd to /usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade, do a make install clean, and start install programs by typing portinstall zsh, apache, gettext, whatever. The ports-collection will take care of dependencies. Upgrading is done by portupgrade zsh for instance. HTH Claus
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