What's happening to FreeBSD?

[mer]

Probably because it's new and unavailable yet.

I'm not sure how rcd will have anything to do with that.

By definition (project definition of rcd) it tries to execute service scripts in parallel. So in theory, startup in parallel instead of serial should be faster.
But yes theory and reality may not track.

 

[kirsche]

As far as I’m concerned, the pkgbase concept is a huge step backwards. Linux distributions use the same concept. I’ve upgraded Debian a number of times since Debian 6, and the operating system has ended up completely unusable sometimes. These were all standard configurations. I hope for the best but expect the wort.

 

[MG]

By definition (project definition of rcd) it tries to execute service scripts in parallel. So in theory, startup in parallel instead of serial should be faster.
But yes theory and reality may not track.

What is it trying? rc.d does things parallel also, right? So it's not a modular kernel + base configurator? I'm no HEAD user but I might try this if it's worth it. Does it offer system-wide options like entirely deleting anything sendmail-related or manpages for everything?

 

[wolffnx]

By definition (project definition of rcd) it tries to execute service scripts in parallel. So in theory, startup in parallel instead of serial should be faster.
But yes theory and reality may not track.

I trust in FreeBSD team that this is not a long term troyan horse , I dont wanna spell the cursed named...all you know

 

[wolffnx]

The new 'pkgbase' concept is good and smooth if you start from 15.0 . Once set, use pkg upgrade. But it is still tricky for normal users for major upgrade. The command pkg needs more work to do, in my opinion .

is hard, I'am not a long time user,started about 8 years ago..full time,servers and desktop
the most hard is things like

"how compile the kernel source code without make 20 steps that I dont know and are hard to learn"

"how install from ports without conflict with pkg?" (allways was wrong mixing it ,but if you need it...)

 

[astyle]

how compile the kernel source code without make 20 steps that I dont know and are hard to learn"

RTFM: https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/cutting-edge/#makeworld (Start there)

"how install from ports without conflict with pkg?" (allways was wrong mixing it ,but if you need it...)

Mixing of ports and packages is a bad idea. One way to minimize the conflict is to make sure the ports snapshot has the same time stamp as the package repo you're using. If you're using quarterly, figure out the exact timestamp of creation of that quarterly repo, and THEN get a port snapshot with that exact timestamp.

Windows doesn't have packages. Sigh.

really? It sure does, it's called Windows Store... and even if you don't use that, most of the pre-compiled stuff that you install from outside is an actual Windows package. They just go by different names: .exe, .cab, and a few others. At least do your homework and get informed about the very stuff you put on blast, buddy.

 

[drhowarddrfine]

Linux distributions use the same concept. I’ve upgraded Debian a number of times since Debian 6, and the operating system has ended up completely unusable sometimes.

Is it the same concept? According to FreeBSD developers, this solves a lot of development problems for them and makes upgrading far easier. In any case, FreeBSD development is not Debian or any Linux development and I don't think they can be compared.