On Fri, 2013-08-30 at 08:01 -0400, Brad Alexander wrote: > FreeBSD has, arguably, a better package system in the ports tree. > Ports is/can be configured to do source-based installs of > applications. > > Personally, I would either stick with Linux or try FreeBSD.
For Linux, the distro Arch Linux does provide something comparable to FreeBSD ports. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Build_System I've got both installed, FreeBSD and Arch Linux, for my needs Linux is the better choice. What Linux disto the right choice is IMO depends to the usage. For e.g. CNC or music productions and perhaps many other things are special Linux distros available. For FreeBSD is also a pre-build install available, called PC BSD, but the PC BSD community seems to be very small, so I would test FreeBSD and not PC BSD. Take a look at the FreeBSD and PC BSD mailing lists. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1377865439.3536.149.camel@archlinux