Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 19:51:52 -0500 From: Jeffrey Goldberg <jeffrey@goldmark.org> To: prad <prad@towardsfreedom.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: living with freebsd Message-ID: <20394DFE-C346-4CF3-8798-B9ABB3ECCE50@goldmark.org> In-Reply-To: <20080504221223.20b5827e@gom.home> References: <20080504221223.20b5827e@gom.home>
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On May 5, 2008, at 12:12 AM, prad wrote: > i'd like to know how people live with freebsd. My FreeBSD systems are light weight servers only, so what I do is specific to my circumstances and tastes. > do you use only ports or only packages or a mixture? I only use ports, but I suppose that if I had some really large things to install like OOo, I would consider using packages. > do you upgrade from version to version using freebsd tools or do it > manually? I use csup and will rebuild world and the kernel as needed. I've got a fairly stripped down kernel to improve boot times. But again, I kind of find it "cool" to compile the whole OS. It may be irrational and non-optimal. That's why I said some of this is a matter of taste as well as circumstances. My choice of when to upgrade the OS really depends on what I need. I don't like to be too far behind. I recently moved one system for 7.0 RELEASE to 7 STABLE because of a specific fix that affected one of my systems. > do you have a different approach regarding the above depending on > whether it is for a server or a desktop? I suspect that for a desktop, I would be more tempted to keep closer to GENERIC and use packages. But I only have FreeBSD servers on which I don't even run an X11 server. Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberg http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/
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