On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Bret Busby <b...@busby.net> wrote: > On Sat, 2 May 2009, Neal Hogan wrote: > >> >> On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Douglas A. Tutty <dtu...@vianet.ca> wrote: >>> >>> On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 06:27:44AM -0500, Neal Hogan wrote: >>> >>>> FYI - While many of the fBSD folks will tout there ports/package >>>> system, I found it to be a pain (especially the upgrade), as did many >>>> others. There has recently been some chatter on their general mailing >>>> list to overhaul how they handle packages. Again, I found oBSD's >>>> package handling system to be superior. >>> >>> Last I looked (last week), OBSD doesn't have security updates (patches) >>> for their packages; they only provide patches for the base release. If >>> you want to run -current, then the packages get security patches. Since >>> I'm on dialup, that would mean a lot of bandwidth time; basically, every >>> time firefox or some third-party app required a security fix, I'd have >>> to download the source for _everything_ and recompile _everything_. >> >> I don't want to labor this point here, but just one more thing. If you >> are going to follow current, the recommended way to go about it is to >> do binary upgrades of the kernel (i.e, snapshots). You don't have to >> compile src every time. The same goes for packages, binary snapshots >> of which are updated every few months or so (probably not that often). >> >> http://www.openbsd.org/faq/current.html >> >> > > Ah. > > Maybe it's too complicated for me. > > I was only ever a user on someone else's (educational instritution's) BSD > system, and did not do, or learn, sysadmin on BSD. > > As a Linux user since around Red Hat 4 or 5, I have never compiled anything > in Linux, and have relied on package management, and have had problems with > software that involved using.tar.gz files to install, to the extent that I > gave up on any package that involved using .tar.gz files to install. > > So, if BSD is more complicated than using package management like RPM in Red > Hat and .deb in Debian/Ubuntu, then it is probably too complicated for me.
It's not . . . http://www.openbsd.org/ports.html > > -- > Bret Busby > Armadale > West Australia > .............. > > "So once you do know what the question actually is, > you'll know what the answer means." > - Deep Thought, > Chapter 28 of Book 1 of > "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: > A Trilogy In Four Parts", > written by Douglas Adams, > published by Pan Books, 1992 > > .................................................... -- www.nealhogan.net www.lambdaserver.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org