On 8/31/18 10:12 AM, Bee.Lists wrote: > I’m fresh out of FreeBSD world. Depending on the port, it can be easy and predictable, or an absolute confusion-fest. > FreeBSD ports should not be confused with FreeBSD system. Each of ports is maintained by different maintainer(s), some of them get obsolete, sometimes quickly, and not every software that is ported deserves in sane sysadmin's opinion to be offered to the users. And the same can be said about RPM collections (which are many, and one huge one would be Fedora's one) or deb packages collection of Debian (and its clones). All in all, if one gets confused sometimes, one can get confused using any open source system. On the other hand, before starting to offer some software to users, every sysadmin analyzes it carefully and tries to predict if it will stay alive for long time. As it is huge pain to migrate users to some alternative once the software of your choice becomes dead... And that is how sysadmins earn their salaries IMHO. Just my $0.02. Valeri > >> On Aug 31, 2018, at 10:52 AM, Gary Stainburn <gary at ringways.co.uk> wrote: >> >> Thanks for this. I haven't looked at FreeBSD since the 1990's or there abouts, >> but I'll give it a look. > > > > Cheers, Bee > > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++