From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 9 16:44: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.eclipse.net (mail.eclipse.net [207.207.192.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38E7414E6E for ; Fri, 9 Jul 1999 16:43:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from spiffer@eclipse.net) Received: from phil1-02-158.eclipse.net (phil1-02-158.eclipse.net [207.207.238.158]) by mail.eclipse.net (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id TAA15767; Fri, 9 Jul 1999 19:42:44 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 9 Jul 1999 19:41:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Roger Rabbit X-Sender: spiffer@deepthought.bflat.com To: "Person, Roderick" Cc: "'matt'" , "'Nate'" , gkshenaut@ucdavis.edu, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: FreeLinux (Debian/GNU BSD) In-Reply-To: <576A688A7DA7D011899B00805FEA1AFF6FDAEF@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 Thats interesting that you found dselect easier to navigate than the ports collection, I found it just the opposite, and I did d/l FreeBSD over the net as well. I migrated to both Debian and FreeBSD from SuSE/RootHat at about the same time, I love the idea of the ports, but that dselect thingy takes some getting used to. :) For what its worth, deselect and the dpkg system is very cool once you understand them, I do like the Debian way much better than RH and SuSE rpms. my 2 cents, Roger ***************************************************************** * * * Roger Williams Enlightened with 0.15 * * * * If Bill Gates had a nickel for everytime that * * Windows crashed.... Oh wait, he does. * * * * spiffer@eclipse.net http://www.eclipse.net/~spiffer * * * * ICQ 973589 * ***************************************************************** On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Person, Roderick wrote: > 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=" 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message