From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 6 00:51:54 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B960C106564A for ; Tue, 6 May 2008 00:51:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jeffrey@goldmark.org) Received: from out4.smtp.messagingengine.com (out4.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96CB28FC14 for ; Tue, 6 May 2008 00:51:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jeffrey@goldmark.org) Received: from compute2.internal (compute2.internal [10.202.2.42]) by out1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFB801046FA; Mon, 5 May 2008 20:51:53 -0400 (EDT) Received: from heartbeat2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.161]) by compute2.internal (MEProxy); Mon, 05 May 2008 20:51:54 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: mKXs3fQ2Wi0vU3d3zBEh8yELEFysff9P1SfhtsLPlVuG 1210035113 Received: from hagrid.ewd.goldmark.org (n114.ewd.goldmark.org [72.64.118.114]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7CE14224FC; Mon, 5 May 2008 20:51:53 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <20394DFE-C346-4CF3-8798-B9ABB3ECCE50@goldmark.org> From: Jeffrey Goldberg To: prad In-Reply-To: <20080504221223.20b5827e@gom.home> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v919.2) Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 19:51:52 -0500 References: <20080504221223.20b5827e@gom.home> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.919.2) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: living with freebsd X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 May 2008 00:51:54 -0000 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/