FreeBSD 9.1 released [LWN.net]

FreeBSD 9.1 released

Posted Jan 3, 2013 0:42 UTC (Thu) by Lukehasnoname (subscriber, #65152)
In reply to: FreeBSD 9.1 released by aristedes
Parent article: FreeBSD 9.1 released

WOW, I typed a long response but the page crashed. Awesome.

The summary was that apt-get's tools (update, upgrade, install, remove, autoremove, purge) along with dpkg and apt-cache's search functions are a Goliath compared to BSD's pkg_add, pkg_delete, etc. tools.

Basically, apt-get was a lot more intuitive in its search assistance and its connectivity to default repos, among many other aspects.

I hope FreeBSD has looked at Debian's system for some binary package inspiration.

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"The page crashed"

Posted Jan 3, 2013 0:56 UTC (Thu) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link]

Pardon the digression, but could you fill us in as to what "the page crashed" means? We've received no crash reports here, so it wasn't a site code crash. But we don't like having people lose their work typing in comments, so I'd like to know what happened so we can maybe try to address it.

"The page crashed"

Posted Jan 10, 2013 0:06 UTC (Thu) by Lukehasnoname (subscriber, #65152) [Link]

Sorry to mislead you, it wasn't LWN's fault.

The web proxy at work occasionally prompts for HTTP authentication erroneously, and I can't escape/hit back to my text. It takes me to a 403, and my comment is gone.

Happens on Reddit and Slashdot, too. Thanks for the concern!

"The page crashed"

Posted Jan 10, 2013 11:56 UTC (Thu) by cesarb (subscriber, #6266) [Link]

You could try using https (https://lwn.net/). That way, you can be sure the proxy will not interfer, unless the proxy does a MITM attack on the SSL/TLS connection. If it does MITM, you have bigger problems (check the certificate to be sure; for me, it is showing as being from GeoTrust).