> > I keep thinking about gentoo, since I really still like freebsd better and
> > gentoo reminds me of the freebsd ports collection. There are days I miss
> > from my old job which involved a lot of FreeBSD work ...
>
> Gentoo and FreeBSD ports are both getting to be a little ridiculous.
> I mean, really, why should I have to compile Firefox in order to install
> it on my laptop? Let someone else waste the hours of cpu time to
> compile it and the libraries it rides in on. All I want is a binary.
You don't have to compile any port locally. You can do, e.g.,
pkg_add -r gaim
