Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 12:10:38 +0100 From: RW <list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The Ports collection / FreeBSD CDs Message-ID: <200609121210.43263.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> In-Reply-To: <8a0028260609120341v61920cf5p3aad4710ef3bd634@mail.gmail.com> References: <d85a51ff0609120304kf4bb0bdy8fba0ed4c7f174e6@mail.gmail.com> <8a0028260609120341v61920cf5p3aad4710ef3bd634@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tuesday 12 September 2006 11:41, Jeff Rollin wrote: > To take your last question first: The ports collection allows you to > install software from source that does not come as part of the base > distribution - that equates, more or less, to stuff that on FreeBSD > installs itself to directories in / and /usr. The base distribution > includes stuff like the X Window System, but not KDE, Firefox or MH, the > mail handler. The base system doesn't include X Windows.
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