On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 14:58:38 +0100, Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Op vr 13-02-2004, om 00:09 schreef Manoj Srivastava: >> 5) Are upgrades easy for the BSD OS's? > >They're both not really difficult, but they're certainly not as >convenient. On Debian, it's just a matter of "apt{-get,itude} update && >apt{-get,itude} upgrade", which takes a few minutes; whereas the >recommended way to do an upgrade on a BSD OS involves recompiling the >entire system (at least, the "world"). That tends to take a long time (a >matter of hours at least, even on recent systems).
... and it needs a complete toolchain present on the target system. With Debian, it is perfectly possible to operate a server systems without a compiler present. To do these things with a BSD, much more effort is necessary. Greetings Marc -- -------------------------------------- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]