Hi,
Just installed FreeBSD9 and been reading through the handbook. I am a regular user of linux but want to start using FreeBSD due to some projects we are doing, but it mainly comes down to running apache and security issues, and as far as I am aware this software handles them well.
I administer a couple of debian boxes so i am familiar with the apt package manager. And i think i have my head around ports... (i assume its quite similar except you are actually downloading source rather than pre-compiled binaries, and then extracting them, checking what you want to include when its compiled, then compile it and clean up the archive mess.
However, its taking an awful long time to install KDE4. (its been going for hours).
Please correct me if I am wrong about the way ports works, but I will eventually install an IDE and start writing C++/JAVA when I get into this software a bit more.
Just installed FreeBSD9 and been reading through the handbook. I am a regular user of linux but want to start using FreeBSD due to some projects we are doing, but it mainly comes down to running apache and security issues, and as far as I am aware this software handles them well.
I administer a couple of debian boxes so i am familiar with the apt package manager. And i think i have my head around ports... (i assume its quite similar except you are actually downloading source rather than pre-compiled binaries, and then extracting them, checking what you want to include when its compiled, then compile it and clean up the archive mess.
However, its taking an awful long time to install KDE4. (its been going for hours).
Please correct me if I am wrong about the way ports works, but I will eventually install an IDE and start writing C++/JAVA when I get into this software a bit more.