Am Dienstag, 7. Februar 2006 12:10 schrieb a non y mouse: > FreeBSD Prospect wrote: > > with having a stable OS & all the lastest add-on software installed. How > > does this work out in the FreeBSD world? > > do you install every single piece of third party software onto your > machine? no... of course not > 3rd party software is just that--it has no relevance to the quality of > the operating system on which it runs, so i fail to see how it could be > taken into consideration when evaluating said operating system. > you are given free will to install or not install any software you wish, > and in any manner. if you want to compare the level of stability and > security of an operating system vs. another, fine. but leave it at that. > whether the ports tree existed or not, you would install certain pieces > of software if you needed them. this, imo, makes any concept of > "security" or "stability" in the ports tree completely immaterial
In general I am unsure, how a stable production environment is handled in FreeBSD due to the lack of dividing new ports in different states. The approach with different qualification of a software state (stable / unstable at least) is a common way to go, as it is handled with the FreeBSD OS (release / stable / current). That's why I wanted to know, how everybody else is comming along with such a system missing for the ports collection. What you write about 3rd party software is not exactly meeting the point, because you can't run a production environment with just the base system. Everybody relies on the additional software, and the whole system can only be considered that secure and stable, as it is as a whole. Therefor the add-on software has to be taken into consideration about the quality of an OS as well, especially because all that software is available using a central repository. Doesn't it make sense, to ensure the quality of add-on software, if the ports-tree is controlled by the FreeBSD project? Wether if it is in a way, like the Gentoo project is handling it, or the OpenBSD project, is a different question. -- Sincerely, Michael A FreeBSD Prospect, who is actually using Gentoo Linux _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
