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From: "Person, Roderick" <personrp@ccbh.com>
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Subject: RE: FreeLinux (Debian/GNU BSD)
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 1999 15:14:45 -0400 
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Maybe this has to do with how installed. As I said over the internet. The
download the port tree - when half of the stuff I'll never use just was a
pain to me. Now I will admit I missed alot of stuff at the begining of my
FreeBSD exploration. I don't know why it took me so long to find the right
way but it did. I really like FreeBSD, even more that Linux. But, the
problems I have had with it so far keep me firmly grounded in Debian!


> -----Original Message-----
> From:	matt [SMTP:matt@MLINK.NET]
> Sent:	Friday, July 09, 1999 3:07 PM
> To:	Person, Roderick
> Cc:	'Nate'; gkshenaut@ucdavis.edu; questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject:	RE: FreeLinux (Debian/GNU BSD)
> 
> 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=<what you are looking for>" 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
> 


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