From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Aug 28 20:57:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from web13601.mail.yahoo.com (web13601.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.175.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9B24237B401 for ; Tue, 28 Aug 2001 20:57:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bzdik@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20010829035737.18981.qmail@web13601.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [24.16.193.228] by web13601.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 28 Aug 2001 20:57:37 PDT Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 20:57:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Bzdik BSD Subject: Re: Would like comments and opinions regarding desktop OS switch To: Giorgos Keramidas , "Joel M. Fulton" Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20010828204725.B11715@hades.hell.gr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --- Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > It is one of the reasons why I stick with FreeBSD now. Having to > update a few dozen packages, and all their dependencies in Linux > tends > to be a nightmare when you want to compile everything yourself. With > FreeBSD, it's all a matter of a few commands: > > # cd /usr/src > # make buildworld > # make buildkernel KERNCONF=MYCONFIG > # make installkernel KERNCONF=MYCONFIG > # reboot [ into single user-mode ] > # mergemaster > > I haven't found yet a Linux distribution (or a commercial Unix, for > that matter) that can beat this! # apt-get dist-upgrade > I haven't mentioned Debian so far. I do not know much about recent > Debian distributions, since I'm only using FreeBSD for a couple of > years now. I vaguely recall 'dselect' and horror creeps up my spine, > when I compare it to the ports. I've heard of apt-get but never used > it. I'm afraid, I cannot comment on Debian. to install acroread as example: # apt-get install acroread both FreeBSD and Debian are examples of good design. I find *BSDs more elegant in some ways and Debian in some others. If you need to do Java development, Debian might be preferred.... yet Solaris for Intel is also freely available :-)) it's a bit clunky though. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message