I must admit I've also been considering a FreeBSD solution, due to aforementioned difficulties finding something my resellers can work with. I can't offer much, but am very interested in seeing feedback on this.
On Sun, 06 Feb 2005 20:18:08 -0800, Ben Munat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, it finally happened. My partner has gotten fed up with the snail's pace > at which the > latest versions of many apps become unmasked -- or even show up -- in > portage. PHP 5, > MySQL 5, Cocoon 2.1, etc., etc. > > He's gotten to the point -- helped along by a couple portage gaffes lately > (PHP/SNMP > conflict causing apache not to start, a MySQL upgrade killing libmysqlclient > and breaking > a number of apps, and my struggles (though probably my fault) with courier > the other day) > -- where he wants to explore other options. A *nix-geek friend of his has > been raving > about FreeBSD... and I have to admit that just about everything I've looked > for is in the > ports collection. > > However, since I've been doing 99% of the maintenance of this server, I want > to know what > I'm in for. So, I'm curious if anyone on the list also runs or has run > FreeBSD? If so, > what were your impressions? What pitfalls are there? What are the big > differences? If you > left BSD for Gentoo, why? > > It seems like the ports collection offers everything that portage does (it > was the > inspiration for portage, after all), but their devs are making the latest > versions > available and stable faster. Is doing "cvsup" is really the same as "emerge > sync" and > "make install" in a given apps directory the same as "emerge <thatapp>"? > Seems like > FreeBSD is a winner... what's the catch? > > Any and all thoughts welcome... > > b >
