On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 22:35:55 -0800 Walter Bright <newshou...@digitalmars.com> wrote:
Hello Walter, > I finally did do it, but as a clean install. I found an old 160G > drive, wiped it, and installed 10.10 on it. (Amusingly, the "About > Ubuntu" box says it's version 11.04, and /etc/issue says it's 10.10.) in last few days I did a little research about 'easy-to-admin OS-es' and the result of it is: PC-BSD (http://www.pcbsd.org/) or Ubuntu-like PC-BSD with a GUI installer. The possible advantage is that here OS means kernel+tools which are strictly separated fro the other 'add-on' packages which should guarantee smooth upgrade. Moreover, PC-BSD deploys so called PBI installer which installs every 'add-on' package with complete set of required libs preventing upgrade-breakages. Of course, some more HD space is wasted but this will be resolved in June/July 9.0 release where such add-on packages will use kind of spool of common-libs, but the main OS is still kept intact. I'm very seriously considering to put PC-BSD on my desktop and of several others in order to reduce my admin-time required to maint. all those machines. Finally, there is latest dmd2 available in 'ports' and having you on PC-BSD will make it even better. ;) Sincerely, Gour -- Gour | Hlapicina, Croatia | GPG key: CDBF17CA ----------------------------------------------------------------
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