On Wed, 7 Apr 2010, David Magda wrote:
It is more straightforward to update a FreeBSD install from source code
because that is the way it is normally delivered. Sometimes this is useful
in order to incorporate a fix as soon as possible without needing to wait
for someone to produce binaries.
If you're going to go with (Open)Solaris, the OP may also want to look into
the multi-platform pkgsrc for third-party open source software:
http://www.pkgsrc.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pkgsrc
But this does not update the OS kernel. It is for application
packages. I did have to apply a source patch to the FreeBSD kernel
the last time around.
Bob
--
Bob Friesenhahn
bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/
GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
_______________________________________________
zfs-discuss mailing list
zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org
http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
