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by drewg123
1756 days ago
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I run it on my desktop, and have for the last 6 years, and for ~10 years previous to that (had a few years running Ubuntu in the mid 2000s) The good parts are ZFS and ZFS boot environments, and general stability. The bad parts are updating ports/packages because in terms of ports/packages, FreeBSD is a "rolling release" distro, meaning that upgrades are often "interesting". I'd vastly prefer if it were more like Debian/Ubuntu/RHEL and had a fixed base set of 3rd party software, with a "ppa" like mechanism to get the latest version of only what you need. However, there is just not enough manpower to support that. I cope with it by running the -stable quarterly packages on my -current desktop, and so I deal with upgrade pain only a few times a year, not every time I update my system. I've also switched to running Linux firefox via the linux jails project. This is nice, because I can apt-get update && apt-get upgrade the linux stuff, and have most of what I want upgraded (web facing stuff like firefox) without touching the native ports/packages. |
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