Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2019 11:07:20 +0000 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD on HP Computer that is using software RAID 5 Message-ID: <20190104110720.94585465562aadc6d8e63fb9@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <fcfedf7b-4ce5-5157-60c7-2f50bcf694f3@FreeBSD.org> References: <SN1PR20MB2109CC11BEFFA9383FDCA406808C0@SN1PR20MB2109.namprd20.prod.outlook.com> <20190102222619.c63f20f0.freebsd@edvax.de> <SN1PR20MB2109B69D2E6B7E9E5C6C0087808D0@SN1PR20MB2109.namprd20.prod.outlook.com> <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.1901031243160.25281@mail.fig.ol.no> <SN1PR20MB2109D5A7EAFFFD226B85293D808D0@SN1PR20MB2109.namprd20.prod.outlook.com> <6d05c736-8020-4963-fe29-3e6bd9110fe3@FreeBSD.org> <SN1PR20MB210964F5AA73DB24FF0CA079808D0@SN1PR20MB2109.namprd20.prod.outlook.com> <8a1d9b31-8dc7-753c-8d37-1eed2d0bd06a@FreeBSD.org> <SN1PR20MB2109BED976DBEE2EFA4A850C808D0@SN1PR20MB2109.namprd20.prod.outlook.com> <fcfedf7b-4ce5-5157-60c7-2f50bcf694f3@FreeBSD.org>
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On Fri, 4 Jan 2019 10:35:05 +0000 Matthew Seaman <matthew@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > Also you will be prompted by freebsd-update(8) or pkg(8) during normal > maintenance activities when your currently installed system is going out > of support. It occurs to me that one significant difference between maintaining FreeBSD and maintaining Windows or OS-X (Linux is a mixed bag) is that the former is an active thing driven by the user whereas the others are reactive driven by the vendor. Personally I much prefer the FreeBSD approach, but it also seems likely that a reactive vendor driven approach could be layered on the basic mechanisms (freebsd-update pkg upgrade) without too much difficulty and that some may prefer it that way (I may even have missed something already in the ports - I haven't looked). That being said I think starting an implementation would be premature, package base would be too intrusive on any such implementation and waste much of the effort. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>
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