[olug] loss of FreeBSD virginity

[Eric Johnson]

On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, Maxwell Spangler wrote:

> On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, puzzled wrote:
> 
> >       I went to Walnut Creek and got the FBSD 4.0 distribution on CD for
> > about $40. It took maybe 45 minutes to install and its not any more
> > difficult than a redhat text install. Instead of having a single binary
> > based installation method like many *nix distros BSD uses binary packages
> > managed with pkg* tools and it has this thing called 'ports'.
> 
> Is that the boxed set with 10 CDROMs in it?  If it is, I wonder if you could
> describe what else is in the box a bit more.
> 
> Also, do you know much about the difference between FreeBSD 4.0 and 4.1?  I'd
> like to buy that boxed set and give FreeBSD a try, but I wonder if I'd be
> better off starting with 4.1 instead of 4.0 in the same way you'd want to use
> Redhat 6.2 instead of 6.1/6.0.. 
> 

You are right about that -- 4.1 is supposed to be a little more stable, a
little more secure, etc. We've been running 4.0 on our development machine
in our office for several months (and I use it at home both for my primary
workstation and for my NAT/router machine on my cable modem).

I don't know what's on the other CDs, but I'm sure it's not anything
terribly important (but maybe useful or convenient).

Eric Johnson


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