Time to kill FreeBSD as a Desktop

[Kris Kennaway]

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.

portupgrade -P

If you think that openbsd's binary packages are available any faster
than FreeBSD's you're probably deluding yourself.

But, use whatever OS makes you happy.

Kris