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Desktop FreeBSD Part 3: Adding Software

Posted by Hemos on from the keep-throwing-it-in dept.

An anonymous reader writes " Desktop FreeBSD Part 3: Adding Software called Open For Business, covers the installation of third party applications onto FreeBSD."

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  1. Anybody? by pediddle · · Score: 1, Interesting

    It's been 6 hours since this was posted and there are no comments!

    BSD may not be dead, but it's sure as hell that nobody cares on slashdot.

    1. Re:Anybody? by Brandybuck · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Posted by Hemos on Monday June 14, @04:38AM

      Maybe it's because everyone is asleep!

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      Don't blame me, I didn't vote for either of them!
    2. Re:Anybody? by n0dez · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Or maybe it's because everyone is working silently the same way as FreeBSD servers; doing their jobs, not giving problems.

  2. no subject by n0dez · · Score: 2, Interesting

    In this article, Ed Hurst talks about installing software from the ports and using joe.
    However, he doesn't talk about portinstall, a tool that makes installing software from the ports much easier.

    1. Re:no subject by bplipschitz · · Score: 1

      In this article, Ed Hurst talks about installing software from the ports and using joe.
      However, he doesn't talk about portinstall, a tool that makes installing software from the ports much easier.

      Port installation couldn't be much easier the way it already *is*. portupgrade makes managing those ports *much* easier across upgrades, though.

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  3. Re:The lack of comments is proof.... by Charles+Dart · · Score: 3, Funny

    Ahem... I have *five* friends, thank you very much.

  4. Re:*BSD is dying by n0dez · · Score: 1, Informative

    There are only 2 true facts:
    1. Your post is a troll.
    2. You're an anonymous coward.

  5. No Posts--We can already install software by Protoslo · · Score: 1

    I would speculate that this thread has so few posts not because BSD is dying, but because any BSD user dedicated enough to browse slashdot and find this "article" hidden in the BSD section has probably already figured out how to install software (even linux binaries, if you're in to that sort of thing ;p).

    Whereas adherents of certain [cough] linux distribtions have started flame threads longer than this one over the comparative merits of their various package systems, the BSD users have little to say on this topic, because the current system works just fine (not to mention the treatment of this topic in the FreeBSD Handbook is more informative than the article).

  6. Re:The lack of comments is proof.... by devphaeton · · Score: 1

    [b] Ahem... I have *five* friends, thank you very much.[/b]

    I've got you beat! I have 4 friends *and* a weekend girlfriend! Ha! And, one of those 4 friends i met IRL once! :oP

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  7. Re:The Facts Are In -- No Comments == Proof! by Ottoman+II · · Score: 1

    You took your time! I bet you were running non *BSD OS so you were, compiling / recovering from crash.

    If you had chosen *BSD as your desktop OS you would be able post this tripe as the first comment to this article.

    Ottoman II
    Deamon's Advocate.

  8. Re:The Facts Are In -- No Comments == Proof! by sigaar · · Score: 1
    I use to use the GIMP on Linux and I knew how it was supposed to work. It was supposed to crash every half hour and be slow as hell.
    Dunno what linux you were using. On my PC at work (SUSE) OpenOffice has been open with a couple of large spreadsheets (1-3mb with only numbers - no graphics) open, for more than two months. I don't leave Gimp open because I don't use it that much, but it has never (since v0.99) crashed on me. NEVER!
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    sigaar