From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 9 12: 7:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from aic-gw.mlink.net (unknown [209.104.118.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id ABF4D14F46 for ; Fri, 9 Jul 1999 12:07:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from matt@MLINK.NET) Received: (qmail 652 invoked by uid 1000); 9 Jul 1999 19:07:04 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 9 Jul 1999 19:07:04 -0000 Date: Fri, 9 Jul 1999 15:07:04 -0400 (EDT) From: matt X-Sender: matt@dns02.arpa-canada.net To: "Person, Roderick" Cc: 'Nate' , gkshenaut@ucdavis.edu, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: FreeLinux (Debian/GNU BSD) In-Reply-To: <576A688A7DA7D011899B00805FEA1AFF6FDAE9@sych02.isdip.upmc.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Person, Roderick wrote: : This, IMHO, is a great idea!!! I have been playing with FreeBSD for some : months now. And the kernel Kicks Ass!!! It just 'feels' better too. But the : package installation and management is terrible. It took me at least 3 weeks : to figure it out. People are always saying how hard it is to install Debian : by dselect, FreeBSD is a nightmare. I hope this does go somewhere. In fact I : think I go home and experiment with porting Debian stuff to FreeBSD! Have you gone mad? FreeBSD's ports system is the best I have ever seen, I have ran Linux(RedHat, Slack, Debian), OpenBSD, FreeBSD.. I stuck with FreeBSD for a damn good reason. How difficult is it to "cd /usr/ports ; make search key=" It don't get much easier then that people.. I'm in love with the ports tree, and I'd hate to see it trashed for some poor[*] precompiled packaging system. [big snip] Matt * In my opinion. -- matt@MLINK.NET To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message