Re: living with freebsd

prad wrote:
i'd like to know how people live with freebsd.
It will soon be the ninth anniversary of my union with FreeBSD. I have been pleased of it, all the time.
do you use only ports or only packages or a mixture?
do you upgrade from version to version using freebsd tools or do it
manually?
do you have a different approach regarding the above depending on
whether it is for a server or a desktop?
I use FreeBSD in the `desktop' setting, I do a lot of TeX, programming, and scientific computing.
In my own views, I segregate applications in three groups:
-- the zombie group, consisting of applications I rarely use, and do not care to keep up to date (almost everything);
-- the living group, consisting of applications I use often but moderately care to keep up to date (Emacs and seamonkey);
-- the hot group, consisting of applications I am very interested in (e.g. some libraries I use in my programs).

I do not care to update the zombie group.
I will maybe consider updating ports in the living group, either for security reasons or for some new functionnality I heard of and I really want to have.
It is not unlikely I update ports in the hot group every time there is a new major release is available.

I do the base install from packages, and use portupgrade for updating my software, after I have read /usr/ports/UPDATING.

My primary goal is having a working system for a minimal maintenance cost, the way I do works pretty well for me; but some others may have better ways to deal with this.
--
Cheers,
Michaël
_______________________________________________
freebsd-questions@xxxxxxxxxxx mailing list
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions
To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxx"

Relevant Pages

  • RE: IE in FreeBSD?
    ... was downloading PDF forms, filling them out locally, and saving them. ... and some Windows applications work just fine. ... > doing the Really Important Work are of course all FreeBSD. ... > data integrity on a notebook? ...
    (freebsd-questions)
  • Re: renaming of /tmp partition. Any adverse effect on OS
    ... The applications running under FreeBSD consider /home/app as the root ... FreeBSD hosts are being used for running our native applications. ... you are effectively disabling the required permissions on ... one host to check whether everything is fine or not. ...
    (comp.os.linux.setup)
  • Re: Convince me, please!
    ... familiar to the Unix OSes that are around. ... PS Try some googling or the freebsd official site for more resources. ... desktop users who have previously known only Windows. ... applications, including its most commonly used browser, office ...
    (freebsd-questions)
  • Re: Convince me, please!
    ... familiar to the Unix OSes that are around. ... PS Try some googling or the freebsd official site for more resources. ... users who have previously known only Windows. ... applications, including its most commonly used browser, office applicatiions ...
    (freebsd-questions)
  • Whats the thing? FreeBSD Security AdvisoryFreeBSD-SA-03:08.realpath (fwd)
    ... I downloaded the patch and said in /usr/src: ... The realpathfunction is part of the FreeBSD ... Applications using realpathMAY be vulnerable to denial of service ... In both of the cases above, the realpathvulnerability may be ...
    (freebsd-questions)