[Gllug] BSD

[Bruce Richardson]

On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 11:00:42AM +0100, Henrik wrote:
> > Installing a package is very simple.  It's maintaining the box that's
> > the problem.   If I handed you a three year old FreeBSD box would you be
> > able to quickly and easily update it to all the current versions of all
> > the installed packages?  Plus security updates?
> 
> I can't do that with Linux either.

You could, you just don't know how.  Debian has APT, Mandrake has URPMI,
there are now plenty of apt-rpm and yum repositories for all the recent
Red Hat versions and their clones.

-- 
Bruce

Remember you're a Womble.
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