On Fri, August 18, 2006 8:22 pm, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > On Friday 18 August 2006 19:50, Nick Rout wrote: >> BSD does have a nice "integrated" feel to it. I am impressed by the up >> to >> date ness (sorry bad english) of the ports system, more up to date in >> general than my gentoo system, which has become bogged down in massive >> popularity vs limited numbers of volunteer maintainers. > > Should I then toss out Gentoo, and go over to PCBSD? > > I need KDE, including Scribus, KMail & Konqueror, a full TeX install, and > Lyx. > > Perhaps I'll install it onto my smaller hard drive before abandoning > Gentoo.
I have it on just one machine, which is a laptop that I use sporadically rather than a crtical every day machine. There are differences between BSD ports and gentoo portage. Primarily I do not see any equivalent to USE, nor do i see multi variations of any package. However I do think there are stable and unstable branches, but i have not got my head around it. I wouldn't consider it as an immediate replacement, but installing on an experimental machine and getting to grips is certainly worth a try. PCBSD is a simplified install and a binary packaging system (pbi) - an easy install with kde 3.5. There are also a few config programs installed. > > -- > CS >
