From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 26 3:32: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rhenium.btinternet.com (rhenium.btinternet.com [194.73.73.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 185D137B403 for ; Sun, 26 May 2002 03:31:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from host213-121-126-146.in-addr.btopenworld.com ([213.121.126.146] helo=saxon) by rhenium.btinternet.com with smtp (Exim 3.22 #8) id 17BvJd-0005Zf-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 26 May 2002 11:31:57 +0100 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Simon Windsor Reply-To: simon.windsor@btinternet.com To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: New user - Many questions Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 11:31:09 +0100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <0205261131090Q.00997@saxon> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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