Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 17:06:31 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What's so compelling about FreeBSD? Message-ID: <45341E87.4080300@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <80f4f2b20610161441h304ccfc4haa6a20f72a08e018@mail.gmail.com> References: <af8b40ce0610151526h6aba1785mb77eb2a76e69fdfa@mail.gmail.com> <80f4f2b20610151556l18c5adcci4196ab107b6b9907@mail.gmail.com> <4533C553.3040609@schrodinger.com> <80f4f2b20610161441h304ccfc4haa6a20f72a08e018@mail.gmail.com>
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Jim Stapleton wrote: >> I have a few FreeBSD machine from 4.x to 5.x. I have asked people how to >> upgrade them to latest version 6.x cleanly. All I was told is that I >> need to wipe them out and reinstall. However, this is not the case with >> Gentoo Linux. With Gentoo, version release does not matter that much, >> you can always keep your system up to date if you like. Of cause, you >> can also choose staying at a certain version. > > I'm gonna join the "whoever said this was on crack" club. Going > between major versions can be a challange due to mergebastard and the > various config file change, but Gentoo's setup is really no different > in that respect. > > However, when you want to compile the Kernel, the FreeBSD system is > much mroe useful than that of Gentoo. I failed my first kernel build > on FreeBSD (custom kernel config) before it booted properly, and have > since done several more without issue. > > With Gentoo, after about half a dozen attempts at optimizing my kernel > for my notebook, I gave up and used Genkernel, which was not as > efficient, but at least worked. No offense to those who swear by it (and I know this is a bit off-topic), but genkernel is shit. It's kernel compiling for people who are afraid of forgetting make commands.. -Garrett > >> Linux supports more devices than FreeBSD, especially new devices. > > Spend an extra 5 minutes researching your hardware before buying, more > often than not, this'll save you the issues. True.
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