prad wrote:
i'd like to know how people live with freebsd.
It will soon be the ninth anniversary of my union with FreeBSD. I have
been pleased of it, all the time.
do you use only ports or only packages or a mixture?
do you upgrade from version to version using freebsd tools or do it
manually?
do you have a different approach regarding the above depending on
whether it is for a server or a desktop?
I use FreeBSD in the `desktop' setting, I do a lot of TeX, programming,
and scientific computing.
In my own views, I segregate applications in three groups:
-- the zombie group, consisting of applications I rarely use, and do
not care to keep up to date (almost everything);
-- the living group, consisting of applications I use often but
moderately care to keep up to date (Emacs and seamonkey);
-- the hot group, consisting of applications I am very interested in
(e.g. some libraries I use in my programs).
I do not care to update the zombie group.
I will maybe consider updating ports in the living group, either for
security reasons or for some new functionnality I heard of and I really
want to have.
It is not unlikely I update ports in the hot group every time there is a
new major release is available.
I do the base install from packages, and use portupgrade for updating my
software, after I have read /usr/ports/UPDATING.
My primary goal is having a working system for a minimal maintenance
cost, the way I do works pretty well for me; but some others may have
better ways to deal with this.
--
Cheers,
Michaël
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