5.4 now, and of course I'm thinking about my upgrade
to 6.0. What I'm wondering is if it's a Good Idea or a Bad Idea (tm) to
build everything from source. I have experience building linux from scratch
(linuxfromscratch.org) and I have learned that sometimes it's just a better
idea to use binary
On Wednesday 09 November 2005 23:09, Mike Hernandez wrote:
...
I have no trouble following docs, so I'm not really worried about blowing
everything up in the process (even though I might haha...) I'm just
wondering if there are any real (noticeable) performance increases if I
build my kernel
On or near Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 08:02:06PM +0100, Mark Rowlands wrote something
along the lines of:
There are definitely security benefits from stripping unwanted services from
your system and I rather like to know that my system (and ports) are up to
date with the latest patches which
Hello all!
I'm running FreeBSD 5.4 now, and of course I'm thinking about my upgrade
to 6.0. What I'm wondering is if it's a Good Idea or a Bad Idea (tm) to
build everything from source. I have experience building linux from scratch
(linuxfromscratch.org) and I have learned that sometimes it's
On Wednesday 09 November 2005 16:09, Mike Hernandez wrote:
I'm just wondering if there are any real (noticeable) performance
increases if I build my kernel and base system from source. Of course
either way my ports will be compiled.
I think there is, but I end my optimizations at setting the
