From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 1 21:55:48 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6166F16A403 for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2007 21:55:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: from sigma.octantis.com.au (ns2.octantis.com.au [207.44.189.124]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09E0013C478 for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2007 21:55:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: (qmail 25728 invoked from network); 2 Mar 2007 08:55:47 +1100 Received: from 203-217-48-136.dyn.iinet.net.au (HELO localhost) (203.217.48.136) by sigma.octantis.com.au with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 2 Mar 2007 08:55:47 +1100 Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 08:55:41 +1100 From: Norberto Meijome To: Simon Gao Message-ID: <20070302085541.602eb85f@localhost> In-Reply-To: <45E726B6.4050507@schrodinger.com> References: <20070301143621.36433.qmail@web35204.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <45E726B6.4050507@schrodinger.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.8.0 (GTK+ 2.10.9; i386-portbld-freebsd6.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Stephen Liu , DAve , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Linux "equivalent" to freebsd 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 Mar 2007 21:55:48 -0000 On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 11:17:10 -0800 Simon Gao wrote: > Why not give Gentoo Linux (www.gentoo.org) a try. By using Gentoo Linux, > you not only get the similar port system, portage, as with FreeBSD, but > also enjoy all the benefits Linux can provide. Gentoo Linux is very > flexible and has a very good support community. risking making this a discussion about linux : I've used gentoo... portage is OK.... but is nowhere near as good as the ports collection, IMHO. First, you need to build everything from scratch, no binary packages. There is an annoying split of portage sections (dev | production | good | bad | pink ..whatever), that someone else puts on you, rather than allow you to chose what to use. And masked ports?! -USE flags are confusing, to me (global? local? ) Anyway..maybe I haven't got the patience needed for linux....i rather get on with life :D _________________________ {Beto|Norberto|Numard} Meijome Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. I speak for myself, not my employer. Contents may be hot. Slippery when wet. Reading disclaimers makes you go blind. Writing them is worse. You have been Warned.