From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 5 05:26:07 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CE42106564A for ; Mon, 5 May 2008 05:26:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chris@sigd.net) Received: from ms05.mailstreet2003.net (ms05.mailstreet2003.net [69.25.50.235]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D3918FC31 for ; Mon, 5 May 2008 05:26:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chris@sigd.net) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 01:26:25 -0400 Message-ID: <6FC9F9894A9F8C49A722CF9F2132FC2211564B11@ms05.mailstreet2003.net> In-Reply-To: <20080504221223.20b5827e@gom.home> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: living with freebsd Thread-Index: Aciubr/+XkY5nNYSTL+CuqqKt32ppAAAUxsQ References: <20080504221223.20b5827e@gom.home> From: "Chris Haulmark" To: "prad" , Cc: Subject: RE: living with 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: Mon, 05 May 2008 05:26:07 -0000 Hello! >=20 > i'd like to know how people live with freebsd. >=20 > do you use only ports or only packages or a mixture? Some uses just ports...while others use packages only if they exist in the first place or they cross compiled. Hell, a lot of people use both ports and packages. The reasons vary and it is not restrictive to pick either one. > do you upgrade from version to version using freebsd tools or do it > manually? Manually is the traditional way. The freebsd tools (if you meant the binary upgrade method) is just a new way. Few are switching over as the time progresses. There are some in the production environment that prefer using binary upgrades as it will provide lower downtimes. > do you have a different approach regarding the above depending on > whether it is for a server or a desktop? Yes, avoid GUI stuff when using server or vice verse. That's just one example out of millions of examples. >=20 > the handbook tells you what you can do, but i'd like to know what is > actually done and why. The way it should work: You find out what you want your FreeBSD computer to do, you look into the available documentations on how to do it. Not the other way around. Chris > -- > In friendship, > prad >=20 > ... with you on your journey > Towards Freedom > http://www.towardsfreedom.com (website) > Information, Inspiration, Imagination - truly a site for soaring I's > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions- > unsubscribe@freebsd.org"