Time to kill FreeBSD as a Desktop
Rico Secada
coolzone at io.dk
Thu Mar 29 23:49:52 UTC 2007
On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 15:45:30 -0800
Gary Kline <kline at tao.thought.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 11:46:34PM +0200, Rico Secada wrote:
> > Hi All.
> >
> > I have been using FreeBSD as a desktop system, on serveral computers for about one and a half year now. I truly love FreeBSD! But keeping third party ports/packages updated is just to timeconsuming IMHO.
> >
> > Building everything from ports is ok, on a quick machine, but even on a quick machine building KDE takes a LOT of time. Waiting until the stable packages are ready takes about 2 - 3 weeks, and until then, a lot of other stuff needs to be updated.
> >
> > Compared to Debian GNU/Linux's "apt-get update && apt-get dist upgrade" command, OR OpenBSD's "pkg-add -u"
> >
> > >From OpenBSD's man page for "pkg_add":
> >
> > -u Update the given pkgname(s), and anything it depends upon. If
> > no pkgname is given, pkg_add will update all installed packages.
> > This relies on PKG_PATH to figure out the new package names.
> >
> > I really think it is time for FreeBSD to make it more easy to update binary packages, like on OpenBSD.
>
>
> Until recent months, I was hyping the Ubuntu distro of Deb/Linux.
> *Everything* was push-button. Well, okay, my first upgrade was
> a disastrous week or three long series of do-overs. But the
> second upgrade (to 6.06) was push-buttons and wait until several
> hundred megs came across my 144k ISDL. I was eager to move up to
> 6.10, but the first several forum posts gave me pause. Nutshell is
> that you can [easily] upgrade every "Long-Term Support" version.
> But these are 2 or three years apart. And the backports are often
> "unofficial" (ya' takes yer risks). I'm still pretty happy with
> older Gnome and KDE, older apps. The Berkeley distros have the
> leading-edge versions, but at least we (FBSD) don't have an easy
> way of upgrading ports. I'll stick with the rock-solid stability
> of FreeBSD for my DNS server. I'll test things that will improve
> the performance of my slower servers--(tuning)--and be ready to
> offer ideas, even SWAGS, on upgrading.
>
> So: real work here; play/AV or mostly Audio or Ubuntu.
>
> gary
>
Thats typical Ubuntu. Those problems doesn't exist on Debian. And no "unofficial" repos are needed on Debian.
>
> >
> > Best and kind regards,
> > Rico
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> --
> Gary Kline kline at thought.org www.thought.org Public Service Unix
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