FreeBSD 13.0 released

Posted Apr 14, 2021 8:05 UTC (Wed) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582)
In reply to: FreeBSD 13.0 released by Duncan
Parent article: FreeBSD 13.0 released

I have thought about Arch Linux yes. Maybe on my next install. Right now I got that machine working again and its configuration is mostly static, so I won't disturb it... I have run Gentoo too, long ago.

FreeBSD 13.0 released

Posted Apr 14, 2021 16:05 UTC (Wed) by iabervon (subscriber, #722) [Link] (1 responses)

Gentoo has gotten extremely good at not breaking (or changing behavior) during updates. It may be a pain to know how to configure grub when you install it, but it doesn't change it automatically at any point, so you certainly won't have the particular problem you had.

FreeBSD 13.0 released

Posted Apr 18, 2021 7:33 UTC (Sun) by flussence (guest, #85566) [Link]

The one most significant improvement - and I've seen people on other distros complaining about lack of it recently - is that Gentoo now scans and records shared library linkage at install time, and if the package providing those libraries is removed their deletion is deferred until nothing else in the package database uses them any more (even if they didn't declare dependencies correctly). Saves a lot of grief when it comes to things like ncurses and glibc.