From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Mar 16 11:23:50 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail19a.dulles19-verio.com (mail19a.dulles19-verio.com [161.58.134.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D8A5137B400 for ; Sat, 16 Mar 2002 11:23:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from 198.104.176.109 (198.104.176.109) by mail19a.dulles19-verio.com (RS ver 1.0.60s) with SMTP id 041256192 for ; Sat, 16 Mar 2002 14:22:31 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3C939AF5.4FB5DA19@pythonemproject.com> Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 11:20:21 -0800 From: rob X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Linux with a ports collection Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Loop-Detect: 1 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I was thinking that that would be the perfect linux distribution last night after trying to get Windowmaker on Mandrake identical to that on my FreeBSD partition. I took me an hour to find rpms, compile stuff from sources, etc. I wonder how hard that would be? I don't want to be too hard on Mandrake since it does seem to have some nice features, but having a ports collection would be so cool, and so much easier for novice users. Rob. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message