From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 17 17:19:50 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2425016A416 for ; Tue, 17 Oct 2006 17:19:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stapleton.41@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.168]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A649B43D90 for ; Tue, 17 Oct 2006 17:19:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from stapleton.41@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id m2so971949uge for ; Tue, 17 Oct 2006 10:19:38 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=UWvTIcty/7fgu/9IKqG3/eci4zLUyC3QM+VHmfqULaoIIJ7tKv5ME4Q0JjpjYPoQiyd6bpU2IiR0gI5YyJttFy1mA980GOSTibdQzIx32ShwncqAUUB1DmbQe9qg5XIjwRag5/Nu4sZVjIj10diQ1xwWjUSyCEpKcVx46j3uE5Y= Received: by 10.67.119.13 with SMTP id w13mr10203910ugm; Tue, 17 Oct 2006 10:19:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.67.86.18 with HTTP; Tue, 17 Oct 2006 10:19:38 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <80f4f2b20610171019n2719d671i42aa01884ee8ffeb@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 13:19:38 -0400 From: "Jim Stapleton" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <4535028F.4080805@u.washington.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <70e8236f0610151546y2e644b4ajb3f86de5bff6179a@mail.gmail.com> <70e8236f0610151557m441baf19ma2ffc0cf504f4edb@mail.gmail.com> <80f4f2b20610170417u18205402q2b9cb2eec97d70ec@mail.gmail.com> <4535028F.4080805@u.washington.edu> Subject: Re: What's so compelling about 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, 17 Oct 2006 17:19:50 -0000 > Also, I'm not sure when you guys tried Gentoo, but as of late (within > the past ~1 year), the quality of the packages and system as an OS has > improved quite a bit, in the sense that many stable items now install > and work properly in the OS. Another off-topic comment I admit, but I > thought it should be mentioned... I've been trying to deal with it for the past two months, on and off. OpenOffice would not compile, Xorg took a lot of tweaking and a few attempts, and a few other programs provided a bit of challange. Only KDE went more smoothly than it did in FBSD. > I'd like to see portage in FBSD though, since ruby is pretty kludgy. > Either that or a different means of recording package data and > dependencies (been thinking of Perl for a while..). Where does Ruby fit into this? To my knowledge, ports uses Perl to my knowledge, and Portage uses Python. And while I wouldn't mind a few of the portage features, such as about 10k more packages, and a few of the interface/display options, I'd still rather use FBSD any day. -Jim