hello all,
ok, heres my situation, im after a desktop system thats lightweight, so i was thinking, linux or freebsd...
now the things i like on freebsd
Base installation, gos without any problems, easy to understand
wireless, card automaticlly gets picked up (makes my life easyer) and it has nice wpa support unlike archlinux (which was my other choice)
now my main problem is, when i install freebsd its 8.0-release
now things like firefox cant be installed via pkg_add because they dont exist on for 'release' however after doing some digging i found they do exist in the 8-stable dir's
after doing some reading on 'stable' the only way to upgrade release to stable is to download all the source and compile it myself then have to keep it up-to-date myself.
This sounds like a nightmare and time consuming.
Now for my questions
is my understanding on upgrading to stable correct?
if it is, is it possible to use the stable binarys via pkg_add from stable on release?
if its not, can you explain the upgrade from release to stable to me?
cheers,
Phil
ok, heres my situation, im after a desktop system thats lightweight, so i was thinking, linux or freebsd...
now the things i like on freebsd
Base installation, gos without any problems, easy to understand
wireless, card automaticlly gets picked up (makes my life easyer) and it has nice wpa support unlike archlinux (which was my other choice)
now my main problem is, when i install freebsd its 8.0-release
now things like firefox cant be installed via pkg_add because they dont exist on for 'release' however after doing some digging i found they do exist in the 8-stable dir's
after doing some reading on 'stable' the only way to upgrade release to stable is to download all the source and compile it myself then have to keep it up-to-date myself.
This sounds like a nightmare and time consuming.
Now for my questions
is my understanding on upgrading to stable correct?
if it is, is it possible to use the stable binarys via pkg_add from stable on release?
if its not, can you explain the upgrade from release to stable to me?
cheers,
Phil