Re: Compiling everything myself?

2009-03-17 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 17 Mar 2009 02:11:32 +0100 (CET), Daniel annonymejens+...@runbox.no wrote: Hi list This may be a basic question, but a question non the less. I have been using Debian for some years and have gotten tired by system freezes, having a slow system, and having a package system that

Re: Compiling everything myself?

2009-03-17 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, What I want to know is the following: Do I get the option of fetching sources and running through a guided compilation; or do I get binaries (like Debian) only? I'd say that installing from the source is part of the phylosophy of FreeBSD. There are pre-compiled packages, but as I see

Re: Compiling everything myself?

2009-03-17 Thread Brent Clark
I have been using Debian for some years and have gotten tired by system freezes, having a slow system, and having a package system that requires that I install every skin of KDE to get KDE up and running. I hope FreeBSD will be better! :-) Hiya Im all for one compiling software for ones self,

Re: Compiling everything myself?

2009-03-17 Thread Robert Huff
Olivier Nicole writes: What I want to know is the following: Do I get the option of fetching sources and running through a guided compilation; or do I get binaries (like Debian) only? I'd say that installing from the source is part of the phylosophy of FreeBSD. There are

Compiling everything myself?

2009-03-16 Thread Daniel
Hi list This may be a basic question, but a question non the less. I have been using Debian for some years and have gotten tired by system freezes, having a slow system, and having a package system that requires that I install every skin of KDE to get KDE up and running. I hope FreeBSD will

Re: Compiling everything myself?

2009-03-16 Thread Mike Jeays
-- On March 16, 2009 09:11:32 pm Daniel wrote: Hi list This may be a basic question, but a question non the less. I have been using Debian for some years and have gotten tired by system freezes, having a slow system, and having a package system that requires that I install every skin of

Re: Compiling everything myself?

2009-03-16 Thread Ivan Rambius Ivanov
Hello On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 3:11 AM, Daniel annonymejens+...@runbox.no wrote: Hi list This may be a basic question, but a question non the less. I have been using Debian for some years and have gotten tired by system freezes, having a slow system, and having a package system that