On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 05:15:39PM -0700, koanhead wrote: > On 09/16/2014 03:00 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > > On Tue, 16 Sep 2014 13:05:25 -0500 Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> > > wrote: > > > >> * On 2014 16 Sep 12:51 -0500, st wrote: > >>> Surely, I'd love to see the votes on 'What distribution > >>> currently alive is a fair Unix-like GNU/Linux, stable as in > >>> "Debian Woody"', though. > <snip> > > FreeBSD is, in my opinion, an attractive nuisience due to its > > package manager of the month never matching ports. Its PC-BSD > > incarnation has problems of its own, though it's better. I'm going > > to retry PC-BSD very soon now --- I got a PC-BSD install CD from > > Fossetcon in Orlando last week. > > Lest we forget, you can have FreeBSD *and* Debian at the same time: > > https://www.debian.org/ports/ > > Specifically, https://www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu/ - but if you > get tired of the ease-of-use and hardware support of kFreeBSD, there's > always the HURD: https://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/ Have any of you tested Gnu Guix (https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/#content)? It appears to be a promissing package manager, I'm guessing _if_ it would be easier to solve these chain issues with it.
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