Cleaning and Customizing Your FreeBSD Ports

BSD Forums writes "One of FreeBSD's biggest benefits is its ports collection. It seems like magic, but a little maintenance can make it work even better for your system. Dru Lavigne explains how to keep your ports collection clean and how to customize individual ports."

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Re:What I Know About *BSD

[Z4rd0Z]

1. You can not play games on it.
BSD is for work, NOT PLAY.

2. It cannot be used by my grandma.
Because your grandma is farting dust six feet under.

3. It lacks a GUI of any note.
Real Men don't use GUIs.

4. There is no support available for it.
Again, Real Men don't need support.

5. It is an assortment of fragmented OSes.
Um, this article is about BSD, not Linux. Learn to read.

6. It cannot be run on the x86 platform.
Everyone on Slashdot knows x86 is dead, where have you been?.

7. You have to compile everything and know C.
This feature helps to keep people like you out of the loop.

8. Support for the latest hardware is always poor.
The latest hardware is unstable so there is no use supporting it.

9. It is incompatiable with GNU/Linux.
GNU/Linux is incompatible with reality.

10. It is dying.
Eventually, decades from now, no one will be using BSD anymore because things will have advanced to the point where current tech is irrelevant. Yes, this means one day even Java will no longer be cutting edge.