From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 6 01:41:20 2010 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 68622106564A for ; Wed, 6 Oct 2010 01:41:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gnemmi@gmail.com) Received: from mail-gx0-f182.google.com (mail-gx0-f182.google.com [209.85.161.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EF328FC1A for ; Wed, 6 Oct 2010 01:41:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk8 with SMTP id 8so2927744gxk.13 for ; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 18:41:19 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=vCAqMRv9zlZqytZ/yXRVjprDSocdT6pmGkHrDrJBTjM=; b=BIqjHcx/0uaZro0rytYzKnFvQa1H4/GvFBLFj0Nfm7eunSSMnZa+odVxEZiCl9/wCH biN+2/YRm1zhh/eYIw9tGjWJqE90/cVDqGuxmdBXD9QOd8RdPzgXrOgaKTDY8HjbjHsW Vo/OKm0Z8MVNCVQE+vH6LefeycWbrJNLp2MnE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=mTC0ytJTLpl4+3d04jgCJHz1LywhFdUqwRQ7Iuigj7nXk0jtvWpa799OkeBTFUylhs x1zX8zSVcSoksIk1wvCpIsZz0hL1EFaiE+Bq93CefAF1Bu5Sn8jENTMTalKdZqJrgAQa Dgf4wqRNFPKJ9WuC+qm6/DTIRm5aWw7xtuhiU= Received: by 10.100.211.19 with SMTP id j19mr8854626ang.11.1286329279291; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 18:41:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.5] (host211.190-230-73.telecom.net.ar [190.230.73.211]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id c19sm312288ana.22.2010.10.05.18.41.16 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 05 Oct 2010 18:41:16 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4CABD3B9.2070305@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2010 22:41:13 -0300 From: Gonzalo Nemmi User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; es-AR; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100802 Thunderbird/3.1.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20101005221230.GA87356@lpthe.jussieu.fr> <20101005215125.GB71713@guilt.hydra> In-Reply-To: <20101005215125.GB71713@guilt.hydra> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: Which OS for notebook 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: Wed, 06 Oct 2010 01:41:20 -0000 El 05/10/2010 06:51 p.m., Chad Perrin escribió: > On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 10:12:31PM +0000, Michel Talon wrote: >> >> Another thing to consider is the ease of maintaining the software on >> the machine. My personal opinion is that Ubuntu (more generally Debian) >> is light years ahead of FreeBSD in this domain. > > How is it "light years ahead" of FreeBSD for "the ease of maintaining the > software on the machine"? I'm curious about what you mean. > I share Michel Talonīs mind in regards to "the ease of maintaining the software on the machine" but I find myself inclined to rpm ... thatīs why I use Mandriva on my notebooks/netbooks. RPM has come a really long way since itīs inception and has proven to be an incredible flexible tool to do the task itīs meant to do (I can write a single .spec file and create as many rpms out of a single tarball as I see it fits my needs, package granularity they call it... just take a look at the mandriva repos to see what I mean). In my personal experience I have found that creating, maintaining and handling rpm packages is a lot easier than creating ports or keeping the software up to date using packages. Best Regards Gonzalo Nemmi