FreeBSD
Posted on January 18, 2004 @ 15:53 in Software
Well, you could wait for it. First he starts obsessing over achieving the best high octane espresso, then he installs Linux on a spare partition, and now he starts mumbling about FreeBSD. Well, this is just a "for future reference" link, but let's hope it doesn't get any worse soon...
Matt Fuller wrote a nice BSD for Linux Users article, detailing the differences in the philosophies behind the various BSD and Linux flavors. I discovered that BSD is the "origin" of the "Ports" system for managing and keeping up to date the additional installed software. This is very similar to Gentoo's "Portage" system that initially drew me to the Gentoo distribution, which I abandoned when the installer wasn't very clear about how it would deal with my Windows partition. Anyway, it seems that at some point I will have to check out FreeBSD.
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mmmmm, ports, better than espresso....
Posted by jeremy hunsinger on January 24, 2004 @ 23:44
Yeah... just don't get me started about CUPS ;)
Posted by Frank on January 25, 2004 @ 00:21
fragment.nl is already running on it ;)
Posted by skydancer on February 03, 2004 @ 17:46
True, and I'm happy with that too :) One more reason to check out whether it's useful to run it on my desktop system.
Posted by Frank on February 04, 2004 @ 11:41
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