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feld
Feb 11, 2008

Out of nowhere its.....

Feldman

dlr posted:

FreeBSD's ZFS support is second only to Solaris, IIRC. Linux lags behind a bit, it seems.

Matthew Ahrens has stated that ZFS on FreeBSD is on par with Illumos/Solaris. OSX and Linux are far behind in stability and performance (not to mention loving weird bugs)

Bob Morales posted:

This cute little guy





This is my little guy :3:

wooger posted:

It's also an absolute nightmare if you're a new user and haven't learned that using a port for anything means that you can't use binary pkgs, and vice versa - unless you want to risk version dependency errors.

This problem should hopefully be gone sometime this year. You should be able to install ports and packages and pkg will know when you've done this. When you "pkg upgrade" it will update all binary packages and automatically build any ports for you.

wooger posted:

Pkg on FreeBSD suffers from the binary packages only being re-compiled once every 2 weeks or so, which means it's always out of date with the ports tree. It's not clear why they can't just re-compile every time a port is updated.

This is not true for quite a while. It's roughly every 48 hours, and should be faster if use the Quarterly branch (default on 10.0+). You can see the builds here:

http://beefy1.nyi.freebsd.org
http://beefy2.nyi.freebsd.org
http://beefy3.nyi.freebsd.org
http://beefy4.nyi.freebsd.org
http://beefy5.nyi.freebsd.org
http://beefy6.nyi.freebsd.org
http://beefy7.nyi.freebsd.org
http://beefy8.nyi.freebsd.org

feld fucked around with this message at 23:32 on Feb 20, 2016

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