I installed FreeBSD yesterday and I was happy about the nice features of this OS. However, I removed it today and came back to Debian. The principal factor which moved me to do that was that I don't want to compile everything from scratch. I know I can use packages but there aren't packages for every port and they are out of date. If the FBSD project focused more in packages that would be great.
I think there are no big reasons to use ports instead of packages. Today's computers are fast enough to handle with precompiled programs. Ports are ok if you have a great computer but not everybody does.
Another problem with packages: When you install several ones pkg_add waits until a package is completely installed in order to start downloading the others. What about downloading all .tbz files first and install them later?
Using something like apt won0t be a bad idea.
Flash is another problem but that is not a FreeBSD fault at all.
Good Luck with this amazing OS.

I think there are no big reasons to use ports instead of packages. Today's computers are fast enough to handle with precompiled programs. Ports are ok if you have a great computer but not everybody does.
Another problem with packages: When you install several ones pkg_add waits until a package is completely installed in order to start downloading the others. What about downloading all .tbz files first and install them later?
Using something like apt won0t be a bad idea.
Flash is another problem but that is not a FreeBSD fault at all.
Good Luck with this amazing OS.
