Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 22:50:42 +0100 From: Jeff Penn <jeff@jrpenn.demon.co.uk> To: Charles Young <charles@wranglers.com.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Replacing Win95 with FreeBSD for low cost home PCs Message-ID: <20030410215042.GA3438@jrpenn.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <1049939391.47109.31.camel@feynman> References: <1049855817.93999.84.camel@feynman> <16020.15129.740634.315264@guru.mired.org> <1049939391.47109.31.camel@feynman>
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On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 11:49:51AM +1000, Charles Young wrote: > 1. For reasons that I can only define as religious, I like to build > things for a specific target architecture - which means optimising for > the specific CPU and devices in the system. As I'm installing into > offices that have generally grown organically, there is usually no > standardised hardware. This means building a new kernel for each > machine. While this does not necessarily mean anything once I get to > install ports - philosophically I prefer to build an entire system in > the same manner - I've a feeling (completely without measured basis I > might point out) that OpenOffice.org, for example, behaves better if > built from source on the target machine. > > 2. I find updating from sources much cleaner that using packages. New > Xft? no problem, just run a portupgrade -fr Xft. > > 3. One of the companies has two offices separated by a VPN over an ADSL > connection. Bandwidth through this is restricted. I have a push tool > (imaginatively entitled 'pushtool') that triggers a cvsup, portsdb -uU > and portupgrade with the supplied arguments on the remote machine. I > use this to do sitewide updates at selected moments using a central > CVS repository. Doing this via source means that often only patches > are transferred which I don't believe is ever the case for packages. Are you aware of the following site?: http://www.infrastructures.org/papers/bootstrap/bootstrap.html Jeff
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