From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 2 04:57:19 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 4CD8B16A401 for ; Fri, 2 Mar 2007 04:57:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erik@cepheid.org) Received: from mail.cepheid.org (wintermute.cepheid.org [64.92.165.98]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F6A713C461 for ; Fri, 2 Mar 2007 04:57:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erik@cepheid.org) Received: by mail.cepheid.org (Postfix, from userid 1006) id B2D51170DF; Thu, 1 Mar 2007 22:57:18 -0600 (CST) Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 22:57:18 -0600 From: Erik Osterholm To: Norberto Meijome Message-ID: <20070302045718.GA59913@idoru.cepheid.org> Mail-Followup-To: Erik Osterholm , Norberto Meijome , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20070301143621.36433.qmail@web35204.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <45E726B6.4050507@schrodinger.com> <20070302085541.602eb85f@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070302085541.602eb85f@localhost> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Cc: 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: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 04:57:19 -0000 On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 08:55:41AM +1100, Norberto Meijome wrote: > 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 No binary packages? Could have fooled me. From: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/faq.xml#ebuilds "For full ISO releases, we create a full suite of binary packages in an enhanced .tbz2 format, which is .tar.bz2 compatible with meta-information attached to the end of the file. These can be used to install a working (though not fully optimized) version of the package quickly and efficiently." Erik