On Fri, 2013-10-11 at 19:14 +0300, Jarmo Hurri wrote:
I would like to switch from Linux to FreeBSD, but am puzzled by the
timeliness of the ports. In particular, I use a drawing program called
asymptote quite heavily in my work. From the ports page I noticed that
the ports version is
On Fri, 11 Oct 2013 19:14:48 +0300
Jarmo Hurri jarmo.hu...@syk.fi wrote:
Greetings.
I would like to switch from Linux to FreeBSD, but am puzzled by the
timeliness of the ports. In particular, I use a drawing program called
The extent to which any given port is kept up to date
Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.org writes:
2. Try to become a maintainer. How?
Step one would be to try bringing the port up to date yourself,
sometimes it is as easy as editing the Makefile, changing the version
and running make makesum to update the checksums. Sometimes the
Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net writes:
Have you tested Debian's FreeBSD port? Debian GNU/kFreeBSD perhaps
does provide a more current user space.
https://wiki.debian.org/Debian_GNU/kFreeBSD
Hmm, I think I would prefer a distribution with a relatively large user
base. The Wikipedia
