Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD ?

[Lars Engels]

On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 08:32:08PM +0100, Chris Rees wrote:
> On 1 June 2012 16:20, Nomen Nescio <nobody at dizum.com> wrote:
> >> Dear All ,
> >>
> >> There is a thread
> >>
> >> "Why Are You Using FreeBSD ?"
> >>
> >>
> >> I think another thread with the specified subject   '"Why Are You NOT Using
> >> FreeBSD ?" may be useful :
> >>
> >>
> >> If you are NOT using FreeBSD for any area or some areas , would you please
> >> list those areas with most important first to least important last ?
> >
> > 1. The X-org changeover a few years ago screwed up a FreeBSD installation I
> > had been using so badly I never trusted FreeBSD's rolling update ports
> > system again. That should have been a major FreeBSD release, but instead it
> > was done just in the ports with no version bump and no choice and no notice
> > unless you read the fine print.
> >
> > 2. Broken ports galore. Much of the stuff I wanted broke on AMD64 after
> > downloading tarballs for hours. Not good. Contacted package maintainer and
> > received answer: yeah, I know it doesn't work on AMD64.
> 
> That is unacceptable.  Submit a PR next time you find something like
> that-- ports that are broken on an arch should be marked as such so
> people don't waste their time as you have been made to.

I guess he made his experiences with that some years ago when support
for amd64 in the ports was not very mature. But this has changed since
then, apart from a few ports almost all of them should work on amd64
without problems.
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