Comments on: i installed freebsd 13.1 and lived to tell the tale/2022/07/28/i-installed-freebsd-13-1-and-lived-to-tell-the-tale/various and sundry notionsSat, 30 Jul 2022 08:12:17 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: wjlonien/2022/07/28/i-installed-freebsd-13-1-and-lived-to-tell-the-tale/comment-page-1/#comment-1662Sat, 30 Jul 2022 08:12:17 +0000/?p=9186#comment-1662Btw, some guy named ‘Ian Murdock’ (RIP brother) mentioned Red Hat in an email interview I did with him – I re-blogged that on https://wolfgang.lonien.de/2016/01/my-email-interview-with-ian-murdock-from-2006/

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]]>By: wjlonien/2022/07/28/i-installed-freebsd-13-1-and-lived-to-tell-the-tale/comment-page-1/#comment-1661Sat, 30 Jul 2022 08:10:44 +0000/?p=9186#comment-1661In reply to whbeebe.

Thanks. There’s another one – “the good thing about my Arch experience” should of course have been “the good thing about my FreeBSD experience”. Anything was better than Red Hat (and others like Suse who took their RPM system) these days, and so FreeBSD opened my eyes, and later Debian was like heaven. Never looked back, but instead began trying to help and to give back to the community…

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]]>By: whbeebe/2022/07/28/i-installed-freebsd-13-1-and-lived-to-tell-the-tale/comment-page-1/#comment-1660Sat, 30 Jul 2022 02:49:45 +0000/?p=9186#comment-1660In reply to wjlonien.

Corrected.

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]]>By: wjlonien/2022/07/28/i-installed-freebsd-13-1-and-lived-to-tell-the-tale/comment-page-1/#comment-1659Fri, 29 Jul 2022 07:41:54 +0000/?p=9186#comment-1659with ‘unless’ I meant ‘unlike’, correct me there if you want to… :)

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]]>By: wjlonien/2022/07/28/i-installed-freebsd-13-1-and-lived-to-tell-the-tale/comment-page-1/#comment-1658Fri, 29 Jul 2022 07:40:51 +0000/?p=9186#comment-1658I remember installing FreeBSD and using it for a short while some 20+ years ago, that was before I discovered Gentoo and later Debian. Still remember the ports and package systems, and that that was the first (and probably last, with the exception of Gentoo) time that I’ve built something like Firefox from the sources. That alone took one complete night on whatever Pentium box I had at the time…
The reason to dump it was that it didn’t upgrade the applications, but only the OS itself, all the rest you had to build again… so after a brief stint with Gentoo (which is also a pain even when compared to Arch) I was glad that some very young colleague recommended to try Debian.
But the good thing about my [FreeBSD] experience was that for the first time, I saw a functioning Ports and Packages system – [unlike] Red Hat and their dreaded RPM hell… still don’t like that ‘Enterprise’ distribution (and thinking) until today.

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