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Hi Michael and Duncan, |
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you two had send me a reply some time ago, but I didn't had the time |
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to reply. Well, here it is :-) |
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In the mean time my desktop is 'fully' functional, at least I can do |
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my usual stuff on it. |
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Of course I have had some issues that needed to be solved: |
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- forgot to include USB HID support in my kernel :-) |
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- network-adapter driver is broken is current gentoo sources, so I had |
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to take kernel.org's 2.6.27.4 |
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- radeon driver didn't recognise video-chip (yeah, had to unmask |
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radeonhd driver..) |
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- wireless card required firmware in /lib/firmware |
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- ... lots I already forgot.. |
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But it could all be solved within minutes or in some cases within a |
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small couple of hours! |
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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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On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 4:14 AM, Michael Moore <mikem.unet@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On 19:37 Mon 20 Oct , Martin Herrman wrote: |
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>> I have used slackware, redhat, mandrake and debian before (in that |
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>> order) and about 2 years ago switched to Ubuntu because it was so easy |
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>> to use. But it's also bloated (it is even hard to compile your own |
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>> kernel) and that's why I started to use Gentoo 2 months ago on my |
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>> notebook. I liked it (compared to FreeBSD: that ports system is |
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>> documented so badly..)! |
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> Surprised to hear that, because quite a lot of people (including yours |
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> truly) find FreeBSD and Gentoo to be couple of the most well documented |
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> systems. |
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> So, what was the exact problem you had with the ports documentation? |
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> -- |
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> Regards, |
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> Michael Moore <mikem.unet(at)gmail.com> |
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> About *NIX: If its not fun, why do it? |
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