reason 23 why we've moved to linux

[Baptiste Daroussin]

On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 01:00:17AM +0200, Reko Turja wrote:
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Randy Bush
> 
> > in the hope that ports will be made usable before so many people give up
> > that critical mass is lost.  a real tragedy if the great freebsd core
> > dies because of ports lack of usability.
> 
> Interestingly, I've found the ports nowadays to be almost exact opposite of 
> unusable, but then I don't use FreeBSD as a desktop, the boxes are in 
> firewall, server etc. uses. Ports coupled with pkgng and portupgrade work 
> just a treat on freshly built 10.0 system, nowadays one can run 
> portupdate -rf <portname> and get the end result that's expected instead of 
> building tons of stuff that isn't in any need of update.
> 
> Of course, there are warts, snags and bumps now and then, but based on what 
> I've seen, I like where the project is heading. Unless in the future the 
> only way to build ports is using Poudriere + Sun/Oracle "How to get the 
> suck... errr, customer invest into tons of our very costly special memory" 
> filesystem.

poudriere works perfectly without zfs ;)

regards,
Bapt
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