Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 00:47:35 +0200 From: Rico Secada <coolzone@io.dk> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Re: Time to kill FreeBSD as a Desktop Message-ID: <20070330004735.425f15c1.coolzone@io.dk>
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Begin forwarded message: Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 00:41:03 +0200 From: Rico Secada <coolzone@io.dk> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.orgrg> Subject: Re: Time to kill FreeBSD as a Desktop On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 18:26:03 -0500 Doug Poland <doug@polands.org> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 11:46:34PM +0200, Rico Secada wrote: > > Hi All. > > > > I have been using FreeBSD as a desktop system, on serveral computers > > for about one and a half year now. I truly love FreeBSD! But keeping > > third party ports/packages updated is just to timeconsuming IMHO. > > > > Building everything from ports is ok, on a quick machine, but even on > > a quick machine building KDE takes a LOT of time. Waiting until the > > stable packages are ready takes about 2 - 3 weeks, and until then, a > > lot of other stuff needs to be updated. > > > perhaps you'd like PC-BSD? :-) No, I'm gonna go with OpenBSD og Debian. Thanks. > -- > Regards, > Doug >
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