Re: BSD handbook - was Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood
On Sun, May 03, 2009 at 07:01:39AM -0500, Neal Hogan wrote:
> On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Bret Busby <bret@busby.net> wrote:
> > On Sat, 2 May 2009, Neal Hogan wrote:
> >> On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Douglas A. Tutty <dtutty@vianet.ca> wrote:
> >>> On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 06:27:44AM -0500, Neal Hogan wrote:
> > So, if BSD is more complicated than using package management like RPM in Red
> > Hat and .deb in Debian/Ubuntu, then it is probably too complicated for me.
>
>
> It's not . . . http://www.openbsd.org/ports.html
The ports system works very easily, very similar to apt-get. However,
right now, they don't have security updates for ports in -stable.
If you run -current and want to update a port, AFAIK, you have to
upgrade to the next snapshot for the whole system. For me, that's a lot
of bandwidth on dialup.
Doug.
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