Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 09:57:00 -0500 From: Mike Jakubik <mikej@rogers.com> To: Daniel Mouritsen <daniel.mouritsen@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Some questions from a newcomer Message-ID: <45F2C73C.1090500@rogers.com> In-Reply-To: <bae323940703100623p126ad129t9a247a0f33cc6dd7@mail.gmail.com> References: <bae323940703100623p126ad129t9a247a0f33cc6dd7@mail.gmail.com>
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Daniel Mouritsen wrote: > Hello, > > I'm playing around with using freebsd for my home server (which used > to use > linux), and I have a quick question regarding the distributions you can > select with sysinstall during the install phase. > > I've chosen developer(since i wish to use the ports packages, i figured > selecting developer might be a good idea to get gcc and such), user and > minimal. > > Just out of curiosity, is does one cancel out the other? i mean, is it > really necessary to pick user and minimal if i choose developer? I mean, > wont everything in "minimal" be included in "developer"? > > The reason im asking is, all this server is gonna be running is > apache, pf > and ntpd to handle the clock. I pretty much want to close down everything > else and make as minimal a system as possible. Any suggestions about the > layout of this machine? Is developer "overkill"? > You don't need the developer packages to compile or use the ports. I would recommend you choose the basic user option instead. > Also, i was wondering, i tried playing around with portsnap, but dear > lord > it was slow :D I tried googling for European mirrors close to me, but i > haven't had much success, any help with finding a faster portsnap server > would be much appreciated You may want to try cvsup instead.
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