On Sat, Feb 08, 2014 at 08:35:41PM +0100, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > On Sat, Feb 08, 2014 at 07:17:41PM +0000, openda...@hushmail.com wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Are OpenBSD's packages extremely outdated? What would you say to this > > guy? > > > > "At least with Linux I don't have to wait 6 hours for all my software > > to finish compiling. Think about all the trees that are unnecessarily > > cut down because of all that compiling. [...snip...] OpenBSD only has > > a small number of precompiled packages, and usually extremely > > outdated. If you want to get anything useful you have to compile > > ports." > > > > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7196494 > > > > Thanks! > > I would tell him: > pkg_add gnome > > => on -current (soon to be 5.5) you end up with the same GNOME version (and > assorted dependencies) as with the latest Fedora. > > We have the latest version of gnome, cups, gnutls, libgcrypt, > ..................... > We have KMS with state of the art acceleration on Intel and ATI. > > And I don't understand why this guy spends hours compiling shits. This is not > gentoo but OpenBSD, we use binary packages. > We have around 7750 packages on amd64, and unlike Linux distros we do not > split packages between -devel, -doc and stuffs -- so for a fair comparison > you should dounble of even triple this number. > If he thinks we are outdated, point him to: > http://ftp.fr.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/packages/amd64/ > > It is the usual FUD, People have *no* idea what OpenBSD is nor how it works > nor what is ships. Their mind is stuck in the 90's when they read the only > thing they ever read about BSD OSes. > People are parrots, they don't make up their own mind because it actually > demands some effort; so they just repeat whatever shit sounded "clever" in > someone else's mouth. > > Oh and by the way, most big Linux shops I know and/or worked for also used to > compiled a big sets of packages for obvious (and sometime not-so-obvious) > reasons.
The world is full of people with mental issues and all too often people do things for the dumbest reasons. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
