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Portupgrade on FreeBSD
BSD Forums writes "In her previous article, OnLamp's Dru Lavigne took a look at the built-in utilities that can be used to manage the FreeBSD ports collection. In this article, she'd like to continue in that vein. She takes a look at portupgrade, a feature-rich port designed to help you get the most out of the ports collection."
I think I pretty much summed up that I was familiar with the environment that I live on, and that I'm not "stupid". I don't think you are either. Someone new to FreeBSD has every right to think the way you do. I'm just too "oldschool" to do everything "correct". Neither one of us are right. I just have a system based on an old way of thinking that works for me and the businesses I support. Traditional UNIX is FUELED by elitism. It is sad, but true. Back in the "good ole days" of UNIX, that sadly I'm old enough to remember, RTFM was the way things were done. Everyone had an attitude problem big enough to push a barge up the mississippi. The BOFH mentality. I try to filter as much of that out as possible. The problem is.... IT WORKS. That elitism inspired the right people to "fuck off" and do better and inspired the "wrong people" to just fuck off completely. There was no room for amatuer hour at the levels I've been at. If you sucked, you had better adapt quickly or perish for the sake of the enterprise. People like me are now a dying breed. My attention to detail is razor sharp because of years of competing with conflicting points of view. I survive because I continue to fight. Guys like me don't fit in well with the fortune 500. I preach things that HR reps are scared of. And I'm DAMN lucky to have the clients I have. Because I KNOW damn well what I'm talking about. That is the only thing that saves me. I still get to have my pride. I still get a fraction of the 300k+ paycheck I used to get for about 3 times the work. But I don't have to change. And I know what I'm talking about.
For every annoying gentoo user, are three even more annoying anti-gentoo crybabies. Take Yosh from #Gimp for example.
bsd is dood.
Dude. Get help.
Attention deficit disorder is a complicated issue, spanning several major... HEY LET'S GO RIDE BIKES!