On Fri, Apr 21, 2000 at 12:29:30PM -0800, Adam Shand wrote: > > If you're really hard core about security and encryption (and I'm going > > to be heretical here, but hey, I have to plug my home), try OpenBSD. > > Since it's main repository is in Canada, US crypto laws don't apply. I > > played with it a bit, but not enough to really get to know the > > advantages. Well, except for the ports. I wish GNU/Linux would have > > something like that. cd /ports/<program>. make. Automatic download, > > compilation, installation. No though required... > > yeah open bsd is nice, but i much prefer apt to the ports collection. > before apt showed up i was almost tempted to switch to open/freebsd because > the ports tree is so nice. the bummer about the ports tree is that can't > clean up after itself as well as a binary package can, and my experience [eb@venabili eb]$ uname -a OpenBSD venabili 2.6 VENABILI#2 i386 [eb@venabili eb]$ /usr/sbin/pkg_info [...] bash-2.03 GNU Bourne Again Shell emacs-20.3 GNU editor screen-3.7.6 multi-screen window manager bzip2-0.9.5d block-sorting file compressor, unencumbered m4-1.4 GNU m4 autoconf-2.13 automatically configure source code on many Un*x platform [...] there is a pkg_delete utility which will allow you to delete any of these listed packages, i've used it and it does work quite well, just as well as apt-get --purge remove. all of the above are installed from the ports collection. > with freebsd is that the dependencies aren't handled nearly as well as > debian handles them. hmm, well when i went to compile emacs it knew that it would need autoconf and gmake and went ahead and compiled and installed them. > and if you want to compile them there's always 'apt-get --compile source > packagename'. if you haven't used it before here's how it works :) with the annoying side affect of apt insisting on replacing the locally compiled packages with the debian binary version... unless you never use apt-get upgrade again or put everything on hold, which hides the fact that there is a newer version... (why does apt do that?) -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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