Future of FreeBSD: Software Store?
Manish Jain
jude.obscure at yandex.com
Tue Nov 20 02:58:28 UTC 2018
On 11/19/18 23:16, MikaelNikolaev via freebsd-questions wrote:
> it seems very difficult to install new software onto it or otherwise learn the ins and outs of the OS
This is now more true of Windows ! It takes ages to figure out how to
work with Windows 7 / 10. Ever since MS moved beyond Win 2000/XP, the OS
interface has crapped out.
Unix'es on the other hand have become very easy to work with. Linux can
be used with very little prior OS knowledge.
FreeBSD expects you to have the minimum knowledge. Once you know the
minimum, working with FreeBSD is like a charm. Till you do not know the
minimum, you have to be willing to learn - the man pages and Google are
the standard tools.
The FreeBSD ports system for software installation is unbeatable, and
probably just what you are looking for. To get the ports system
(populated at /usr/ports), use the command:
portsnap fetch extract
Once you have /usr/ports, cd to any port therein you like and :
make install clean
I should probably mention a way to make life easier for newcomers to get
started with FreeBSD. The biggest hurdle with FreeBSD has been the
longish procedure for X/desktop installation - which is done separately
and after the base system installation.
If you are okay with KDE, I would like to exhort you to try my own
preparation :
pkg install mkdesktop
mkdesktop
It does not get much easier.
Regards,
Manish Jain
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