Thus spake Derek Glidden on the 24 day of the 09 month in the year 2002:
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> ???
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> I can install a complete FreeBSD system in way less disk space than any
> Linux distro except possibly for Debian. (I once installed an older
> FreeBSD 2.x system onto a 386sx machine with two 40MB (yes MEGAbyte)
> hard drives to be a name server at a company I worked for once. It
> worked great.)
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> If you install SRC and PORTS, it'll take up a lot of space, because
> that's kind of like (FreeBSD lovers don't kill me for the inaccurate
> metaphor) having the whole Debian repository on your local hard drive,
> but neither of those is stricly necessary unless you want to be able to
> rebuild the entire system from source. (i.e. the FreeBSD classic "make
> world")
I could be wrong here, but I was under the impression that the binary
packages for FreeBSD are not updated nearly as frequently as the
source is updated. I could be wrong here. (Are there any *BSD nuts
lurking here to shed some mostly unbiased light? ;-) Personally, I don't
know of anyone who's running FreeBSD with binary packages. I'm guessing
that, like Linux, you're going to have to rebuild your kernel for any
sort of reasonable laptop support under FreeBSD.
> Gentoo's "portage" system is a direct ripoff (in the good sense) of
> FreeBSD's "ports" system.
The ports collection does rock. My biggest complaint about FreeBSD is
that several nifty tools within it (most importantly cvsup) are written
in Modula 3. Don't get me wrong here. cvsup is a very cool, efficient
piece of software. I'm just experiencing recurring nightmares from being
forced to program in Modula 3 in a Comp Sci 101 class. For those not
familiar with Modula 3, imagine Pascal attempting to do objects,
requiring UPPERCASE for all sorts of silly things, with a compiler
created by Comp Sci professors. ;-)
Other than that, FreeBSD tends to rock.
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