On 9/21/2006, "Christopher Sawtell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Thursday 21 September 2006 08:10, Robert Fisher wrote: >> On Wednesday 20 September 2006 11:43 pm, Christopher Sawtell wrote: >> > Keep on with the building of the package. >> > This is the main reason that I will never ever again have anything to do >> > with a 'binary' distribution. In my exp. they are all glamour and no >> > guts, garnished with packages suffering from bit-rot, and dependency >> > hell. ( I'd agree that that particular hell is a lot cooler than it used >> > to be, but my exp. is that all the distributions suffer from it. ) >> >> Chris I think that "your experience" might be a bit dated now. >That's quite possibly true, I've been on Gentoo for about 4 years now, since >Gentoo-1.2 anyway. Unfortunately time being what it is, I have not kept up >with the details of other distributions. > >> You should try one of the recent Distro releases and refresh your opinion. >> (IMHO) >I have installed PC-BSD on a dual P/III machine. >It appeared to install totally painlessly creating a nice KDE desk. >_However_, >The install did not detect that the machine had two CPUs and install the >correct kernel. That one is now sorted thanks to Nick. > >The version of CUPS installed is rather old and does not support a locally >connected parallel port printer. Fiddling about with 'pkg_add -r cups' >doesn't produce the latest version. The latest version seems to be 1.2.3 (from www.cups.org) - the version in freebsd is 1.2.2. Given that 1.2.3 was released on 30 August 2006 I think you are being picky. Simply make sure the ports collection is up to date, then cd /usr/ports/print/cups && make install clean >I'd like to install a more recent version of gcc - so it's the same as the o ne >on my ThinkPad running Gentoo - but I havn't the slightest idea how to go >about doing it. upgrading gcc on any distro or OS is a scary concept. I would be looking for very specific instructions before trying that one! I do see that they seem to plenty of versions. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=gcc&stype=all&sektion=lang > >I suppose I'll have to install them from source. :-) >Now perhaps you can appreciate why I'm such a fan of source distros. > Which is presumably why you installed FreeBSD! >> I recently installed Mepis on my main desktop and everything I need was >> installed (including all dependancies) without a hassle and in only a >> couple of hours. >imho, it's a Big Black Cloud(tm) that Mepis does not detect and install the >software for the Lucent/Agere lose-modem so that it works completely >automatically. Note that we have two reports of this, so it's not just Alan. > >-- >CS >
