Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2015 11:55:03 +0100 From: Lev <leventelist@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Questions from a Linux refugee Message-ID: <20150106115503.4870ab2e@jive>
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Sorry for my ignorance, I am a Linux refugee. I learned that Debian is also goes with the systemd nightmare, so I started to look around and install other OSs. So I started using FreeBSD, and I kinda liked it, but there were several "show stoppers", so for the time being I had to go back to Debian. My greatest concern were these. I ask here, maybe I missed something and I can move to FreeBSD. 1. Lack of ext4 support. As a Linux user, I have lots of disks with ext4 partition, and I simply wanted to copy files, but failed. I might be naive, but ext4 is open, so why can't FreeBSD have native support for ext4? 2. I have a PCI-serial interface card that stopped booting the kernel. It said something like "not standard serial port". According to lspci on Linux this is: NetMos Technology PCI 9845 Multi-I/O Controller 3. Package system. I wanted to install scilab. There is (?) no binary package for it, and the compilation took ages. After I had it, the next update deleted it along with other packages. How to deal with the upgrades? Thank you for your answers, and I hope one day I will be a FreeBSD user. 73! de HA5OGL Levente
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