Re: [MLUG] Distro Suggestion?

[Shawn Parker <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

you mention "just working" and dependencies, arch is the same way. 
everything installs and works.  you can edit configs all day if you want 
to customize things, but it works out of the box, so to speak.  and, 
system updates, installations and removal is a snap with pacman.

to update the box: pacman -Syu
to install foo: pacman -Sy foo
to remove foo: pacman -Ry foo

can't really ask for simpler than that.  :)


Shawn Parker
Network Administrator
Cumulus Broadcasting, LLC.
Columbia, Missouri
573.449.4141 Ext: 331



Nimrod Levy wrote:
> I'm going to toss out FreeBSD.  I was a hard core Debian-ite for a long 
> time.  But recently I made the switch.  I'm a huge fan of the 
> packages/ports system.  Everything "just works".
> 
> I was getting kind of fed up with a lot of the politics in the kernel 
> list as well as the debian world.  Not that the bsd's are by any means 
> immune to that sort of thing, I was just more drawn more to the 
> development model and the licensing philosophy a bit more.
> 
> My freebsd boxen have been rock solid.  I have no problems doing a 
> kernel update on a headless box with no console (non critical system, 
> but it works every time).
> 
> I can't say  enough about the ports tree.  'make install clean' is all 
> you ever need and ALL dependancies are automagically taken care of.  It 
> just works.
> 
> -- 
> Nimrod
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