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On 19:51 Sun 02 Nov , Martin Herrman wrote: |
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> That takes me to the issues I have experienced with FreeBSD: although |
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> it looks like a very well-documented (and centralised!) system, I had |
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> problems understanding e.g. the ports way of installing software. I |
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> had lot's of errors, which I couldn't solve. I think that Gentoo's |
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> user-base is much larger, which makes it easier to find solutions and |
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> bug-reports online. But also the messages shown at e.g. the output of |
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> emerge help a lot. In FreeBSD I also had trouble to do a full system |
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> upgrade: what are the command's you should use in what sequence? I had |
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> that information avaialble for gentoo in minutes. |
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> Maybe I do not have an objective view, because I know Linux quite well |
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> and FreeBSD is totally new to me. |
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> Best regards, |
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> Martin |
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Hi Martin, |
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In a nutshell you could say that Gentoo Linux has a highly refined |
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implementation of the methods of FreeBSD (though at the core they |
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are two totally different systems- technically & philosophically). |
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It includes an excellent package manager and a lot of well polished |
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tools (eselect et al.) which make system administration less of a |
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chore and infact a highly easy job (contrary to popular belief). |
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This is one of the reasons i love Gentoo Linux -- it provides the |
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power without putting you into too much of an inconvenience. But |
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that doesn't take anything away from FreeBSD, which has managed to |
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still follow the KISS Principle and keep things fairly well integrated. |
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As regards the emerge output, you would realise that the make output of |
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the ports system isn't different. And as for the update just read the |
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docs. You would find out that a world update in FreeBSD is quite similar |
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to others, provided if you get the knowhow about userland and system. |
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But, anyways both are quite different systems so, please don't view |
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anyone with any kind of prejudice. I am not trying to profess any particular |
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system but, you should only criticise something once you are fairly well versed |
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with it. |
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-- |
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Michael Moore <mikem.unet(at)gmail.com> |
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