From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 1 21:32:02 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E73316A41F for ; Thu, 1 Sep 2005 21:32:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7B2D43D46 for ; Thu, 1 Sep 2005 21:32:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.13.1/8.13.3) id j81LW1MG007530; Thu, 1 Sep 2005 16:32:01 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 16:32:00 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Mario Carugno Message-ID: <20050901213200.GA50256@dan.emsphone.com> References: <2792860b05090114194d4df30a@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <2792860b05090114194d4df30a@mail.gmail.com> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.10i Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: and the winner is... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2005 21:32:02 -0000 In the last episode (Sep 01), Mario Carugno said: > I there, i was trying freebsd for a while, and comparing it against > debian/linux. > The winner was Debian by far... Freebsd could be stable, but it is not > faster... and Debian is far much more 'usable'. > Freebsd package installation is very laborious compared with Debian's apt > system. I have to search in each CD, know dependences,... Have you never used pkg_add -r ? You shouldn't need to touch a cd after the base system is installed. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com