Re: [tlug] FreeBSD.....Linux what's the difference

["Micheal E Cooper" <mecooper@example.com>]

Really? That does sound wonderful.

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----- Original Message -----
From: "lists" <lists@example.com>
To: <tlug@example.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 10:08 AM
Subject: Re: [tlug] FreeBSD.....Linux what's the difference


> I started out with RedHat 5.2 and went to FreeBSD about a year later.
> All of the dependency issues in RedHat were driving me crazy. Apparently a
> lot of that is fixed now.
> The ports system in FreeBSD is what I really liked.
>
> > If you're familiar with Linux, it's not hard to use BSD. Some things
> > are in different places, and BSD uses (quite naturally) BSD-style
> > init scripts rather than the SYS V style followed by Linux.
> > For software packaging, BSD uses the ports system (read about it
> > at freebsd.org), which is quite nice.  Want to install some
> > program? If it's in ports, just cd to its directory and type make.
> > The source tarball will be downloaded, it will be configured, and
> > compiled.  Then do make install.  You're done.
>
> Actually, you can just do that in one step: make install
> This also automatically checks for dependencies and downloads and installs
> everything else that is needed as well.
>
> The cvsup program allows you to easy keep the whole ports tree up to date.
> A lot of people run it from a cron so that they are always up to date on
> everything.
>
> Shawn
>
>