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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."
That portsclean -DC works really well! Very through, updated the database and cleaned out a bunch of stuff. It seems like everything that the BSD people do is very stable and does exactly what they say it will do.
I really don't understand why the BSD's don't get more involvement... Maybe I just haven't been invited into that L33t crowd - yet...
Duke
FreeBSD: Nothing runs like a daemon with a pitch fork.
... cd /usr/ports/distfiles then rm -rf *
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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.
You had me at "dicks fuck assholes".
You can not play games on it.
Is Quake 3 not good enough for you?
It cannot be used by my grandma.
Grandma can't use a toaster, what's your point?
It lacks a GUI of any note.
*looks over to freebsd box and sees KDE running*
There is no support available for it.
No support for wimps.
It is an assortment of fragmented OSes.
You must have it confused with Red Hat. The colours are similar and those might confuse you.
It cannot be run on the x86 platform.
*looks at Cyrix 6x86 PR-200 for the second time today*
You have to compile everything and know C.
*wonders why my install took less than 2 hours on a 486*
Support for the latest hardware is always poor.
*looks at nVidia drivers*
It is incompatiable with GNU/Linux.
Has the Linux-compat broken again?
It is dying.
Luckily, so are you.
Good article there, now I can finally remove all of the crap from my file server that I don't need (good timing too since I just got it up).
Now, if I can only work out why sendmail (or at least the mailqueue) still insists on running *sigh*