Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 11:31:09 +0100 From: Simon Windsor <simon.windsor@btinternet.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: New user - Many questions Message-ID: <0205261131090Q.00997@saxon>
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Hi I have just moved one of my machines from Debian to FreeBSD (4.5). The reason for this was the non-appearance of woody. I am generally well pleased, but have many questions. Here goes .. - I use an Athlon architecture, would it make sense to rebuild the base system and packages for that architecture ? - What is the best way to do this ? Create /etc/make.conf ? What values should I use in /etc/make.conf for Athlon architecture ? - Is cvsup the best way to maintain the Ports tree ? - All packages that I have built using portinstall -P seem to build locally. Do prebuilt packages really exists, or am I just unlucky ? - In linux world, the progress and direction of kernel development, file system development and driver development is well know. Being totally to BSD (I used SunOS many years ago) where can I find out about such issues. .. Is virtual memory support totally stable ? .. What is the recommended swap size to phys mem ratio ? .. Is UFS the only supported file system ? .. How does UFS compare to ext2/ext3/ReisserFS/XFS etc ? - Why is the base system so big ? I here that perl is being removed, shouldn't sendmail,bind/named also be removed to packages ? I appreciate that all these questions are annoying, but I do not know where to find the answers. I've checked the BSD Handbook, and while it appears excellent, is appears to miss some of these areas. Simon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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