Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 11:16:38 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What's so compelling about FreeBSD? Message-ID: <45351E06.6000709@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <80f4f2b20610171019n2719d671i42aa01884ee8ffeb@mail.gmail.com> References: <af8b40ce0610151526h6aba1785mb77eb2a76e69fdfa@mail.gmail.com> <70e8236f0610151546y2e644b4ajb3f86de5bff6179a@mail.gmail.com> <70e8236f0610151557m441baf19ma2ffc0cf504f4edb@mail.gmail.com> <a25afc300610162031xb097cb4qbea67d08436e41ec@mail.gmail.com> <80f4f2b20610170417u18205402q2b9cb2eec97d70ec@mail.gmail.com> <4535028F.4080805@u.washington.edu> <80f4f2b20610171019n2719d671i42aa01884ee8ffeb@mail.gmail.com>
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Jim Stapleton wrote: >> 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. Hmmm... maybe it's just my playing around with Linux in general before I started using FreeBSD on my servers, but it didn't really seem like that much of a challenge for me. Then again, each user's experience differs, and maybe that's the best gem of advice I can give the original poster of this message when he asked us to 'wow' him. >> 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. > Read the email I just wrote in reply to Raymond (timestamp should be shortly after this email). > 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. Not saying I don't feel the same either, but the interface for updating ports could be better.. -Garrett
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