> 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?
not that it matters much in the context of 9fans, but one can install binary packages from compiled ports without much difficulty in freebsd, just the command is different than 'make'. i run Fedora on my home computers, the university machines are slowly being switched to suse just because it's slightly more gui-sh to administer. not that it matters much -- nobody really cares about what's running underneath, as long as it doesn't require reboots every week. almost everyone here operates their desktop machines as glorified xterms (read: xterms that can play music and browse the web) to the cluster nodes. my desktop at ucalgary is a big drawterm to the plan9 server. the current incarnation of the drawterm i'm typing this email in was started on July 7th.
