Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 11:22:18 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I like Ubuntu Message-ID: <46211BDA.2040703@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <86tzvjz2dr.fsf@dwp.des.no> References: <2a4057fc0704131021t60249c62k4107ee6cf9f1fb8f@mail.gmail.com> <86mz1ckqlc.fsf@dwp.des.no> <20070413183656.E73976@fledge.watson.org> <86tzvjz2dr.fsf@dwp.des.no>
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > doug@safeport.com writes: > >> First my experience with [Free]BSD as a server completely mirrors >> Dag-Erling's observation, it [mostly] just works. I started with BSDI >> switching to FreeBSD around 3.5. I think it is also true that >> depending on your hardware a FreeBSD workstation or laptop can be a >> bit of a challenge. >> > > My issues with FreeBSD as a desktop mostly come from the difficulty of > installing software and keeping it up-to-date: 'pkg_add -r' and > 'portupgrade -aP' simply can't hold a candle to 'apt-get install' and > 'apt-get dist-upgrade'. > > DES > My aim is to improve that as part of my SoC project that I'm working on. -Garrett
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