Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 11:57:44 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I like Ubuntu Message-ID: <46212428.1010102@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <20070414182309.GB302@demeter.hydra> References: <2a4057fc0704131021t60249c62k4107ee6cf9f1fb8f@mail.gmail.com> <86mz1ckqlc.fsf@dwp.des.no> <20070413183656.E73976@fledge.watson.org> <86tzvjz2dr.fsf@dwp.des.no> <20070414182309.GB302@demeter.hydra>
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Chad Perrin wrote: > On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 12:17:20PM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav 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'. >> > > What do you find lacking in the FreeBSD approach? I'm a relatively > recent transplant from Debian, and my experience is that FreeBSD > provides better, more predictable, and more customizable results, > without increasing the difficulty or reducing the convenience at all. > > Granted, I haven't really tried the package-based software management > options for FreeBSD in any depth -- I'm mostly installing from source at > this point -- but thus far I haven't any reason to expect package-based > installation to be any less easily managed than source-based installs. Well, we have some problems sometimes with cyclic dependencies (portinstall / portupgrade and friends), and people aren't really happy when names of categories / packages get changed (like what's happened recently with the revision of some of the port names), because there's a bit more work involved 'fixing' everything back to the same state that there was before. People also complain that there aren't enough offerings in terms of packages, but that's a resources issue from what I understand. Overall though, I do like FreeBSD's ports system better than I do debian's apt-get system :). Having to shuffle through all of those menus and pages package listings to install stuff was a pain. -Garrett
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