From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 8 03:44:46 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C61EB16A4BF for ; Mon, 8 Sep 2003 03:44:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hannibal.servitor.co.uk (hannibal.servitor.co.uk [195.188.15.48]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17A7E43F93 for ; Mon, 8 Sep 2003 03:44:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from paul@iconoplex.co.uk) Received: from hannibal.servitor.co.uk ([195.188.15.48] helo=iconoplex.co.uk) by hannibal.servitor.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.14) id 19wJZ8-000Gjm-2C; Mon, 08 Sep 2003 11:48:14 +0100 Message-ID: <3F5C5D9B.4030603@iconoplex.co.uk> Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2003 11:44:43 +0100 From: Paul Robinson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rahul Siddharthan References: <20030908023456.GA3126@online.fr> In-Reply-To: <20030908023456.GA3126@online.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The Old Way Was Better X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2003 10:44:46 -0000 Rahul Siddharthan wrote: >For around 4 months now I've been mainly using Debian because I couldn't >get FreeBSD to work on my new laptop. > What was the issue, just out of curiosity? >I really like the way they do >things. In a nutshell, they always have *three* branches: > >"stable" -- frozen, only bugfixes go in >"testing" -- stuff in a queue for a "stable" release >"unstable" -- the main development distribution > You're right - that is a nice way to do things. >I don't know how this could work for the FreeBSD base system, which is > There was some discussion several years ago when Jordan was still about, and again a few months back, that making everything packages was a good goal to aim for. It got tied up with the sysinstall bikeshed though. >The DragonFly people seem to have some ambitious goals, > That's an understatment. >and Matt even >mentions Debian as an example of how to do packaging right. I'd like to >give DF a spin, but I may have no better luck on this laptop than with >FreeBSD. > It won't. DF is not that different from FBSD at this stage for the majority of stuff. It certainly isn't going to be sufficiently different to get you to a point of being more likely to install. Whenever FBSD dails, I find Net or Open to save the day most times. -- Paul Robinson