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Performance v.s. Quality

Performance v.s. Quality

Posted Nov 7, 2005 14:54 UTC (Mon) by Los__D (subscriber, #15263)
In reply to: Performance v.s. Quality by b7j0c
Parent article: FreeBSD Project Launches FreeBSD 6.0

You want that for a Linux?

Here's a script for you for Gentoo's portage, an improved (*10) ports:

#!/bin/sh
emerge -uDv system && emerge -uDv world && genkernel --menuconfig

There's your 'make world' all in one command...

Very important to write ONE command, I can see that, don't want too much flexibility or anything!


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Performance v.s. Quality

Posted Nov 7, 2005 14:56 UTC (Mon) by Los__D (subscriber, #15263) [Link]

Remember to throw in an 'emerge sync' first if you don't want choice of upgrading the tree as well...

Performance v.s. Quality

Posted Nov 7, 2005 17:04 UTC (Mon) by b7j0c (subscriber, #27559) [Link]

yes i understand that other systems have these features. freeBSD has had them for nearly a decade, that is the difference. freeBSD had these features before Gentoo existed.

Gentoo is an excellent linux distribution and offers its users many of the quality configiruation utilities that freeBSD users have enjoyed for a very long time.

Performance v.s. Quality

Posted Nov 7, 2005 17:59 UTC (Mon) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]

but nobody is disagreeing that *BSD was better then Linux a decade ago. everyone but the most fanatic linux folks (who also have to be ignorant of history), many people would probably say that *BSD was better then Linux 5 years ago (but this would be a smaller number), the question at hand is how do they compare today.

the rate of change of Linux is such that (assuming it's improving things) Linux will be better then *BSD at some point, the only real question is if that point has been reached yet.

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