On Tue, 28 Jan 2003 09:39:37 -0500 (EST) "Anthony Abby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> urpmi does essentially the same thing... but it's not ports. in Freebsd > you can do the same thing with packages... under freebsd you can install > via ports, packages, or simply through untarring an app. Ports and > Packages are pretty much the same thing, except ports is compiled during > install and packages is already compiled binaries. That is correct, I personally prefer compiling myself or in this case in the form of ports, even though the timeaspect > > If you want rock solid stability freebsd is a pretty damn good choice... Yeah, sure is, we have switched from Mandrake to FreeBSD here at work, nothing wrong with Mandrake, it worked fine, but we experienced some problems with the memory, possibly bad hardware though, but FreeBSD seems to take up much less memory. /Anders
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