On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 12:14:15AM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Aug 2009 19:51:00 -0700, Gary Kline <kl...@thought.org> wrote:
> > Been thinking over what someone said recently about restricting or
> > dropping further ports. BSD is the best opensource system around. But
> > keeping everything current is painful.
>
> If you're not running a public or mission critical server - then
> don't do it. I've used a 5.4 installation for many years without
> any problems, and without the need to update something. But I'm
> crazy anyway. :-)
>
well, thought.org is public, but i just have the basics.
it is a Server, period.
>
>
> > Does anybody know if PCBSD is as
> > pushbutton as, say, Ubuntu is?
>
> Quite. You won't have major problems because English already is
> your native language. If you're comfortable with KDE and will be
> using the PBI installer (read: "Push Button Installer"), it can
> be a fine system. Even OS updates are distributed in PBI format.
>
Super! just offhand, can i install PCSD *over* thius FBSd
--7.1--? Keep /usr/home and so on? Or is PCBSD a
do-it-from-scratch? (I'm pretty much OS agnostic [[so long
as it's somethng like UNIX]], but here I know where things
live... With ubuntu, diff't story.)
>
>
> > I'll always use FreeBSD on my DNS,
> > apache22, and mail server side. Zero crashes in 7 years. But if I want
> > to play music or watch a DVD--or do serious web video stuff--I use
> > Ubuntu.
>
> "Serious web video stuff" - how many contradictions does this
> statement include? :-) No, seriously: Especially if you rely on
> "Flash", Linux doesn't seem to be as... well... problematic? as
> FreeBSD.
hm, not sure how much flash is used, really. i just avoid as
much of it as I can. if i can watch a public broadcasting
stream i usually KVM over to my Ubntu box. ....mmmm.
Hope the just-works PCBSD just-works here.
>
>
>
> > I'd like to say kilowatts by having one "tao" that can handle everything
> > from hacking code to playing a movie.
>
> That's FreeBSD to me since 4.0, but I have to admit that my needs
> haven't yet grown to all the "modern web media" stuff...
>
>
i am not that into the-tube... but for science broadcasts,
yep. especially things i've missed and are somewhere online.
thanks for the datapoints!
gary
>
>
>
> --
> Polytropon
> From Magdeburg, Germany
> Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
> Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
--
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