Easiest desktop BSD distro

Polytropon freebsd at edvax.de
Thu Mar 31 12:42:21 UTC 2011


On Thu, 31 Mar 2011 04:10:29 -0700 (PDT), "four.harrisons at googlemail.com" <four.harrisons at googlemail.com> wrote:
> I left Linux a while ago, but at that time compiling and
> installing a new kernel on Red Hat or Slackware (to stick
> within my experience) was significantly harder to do than
> "make buildkernel; make installkernel", once you had it
> figured.

Oh, on FreeBSD it's a lot easier than that: "make kernel". :-)

See /usr/src/Makefile's comment header where the build
targets get explained.


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