X from the sources

[Valter Nogueira]

I will use VirtualBox for sure. You tip about BSD is very important and I
will try it to.

thanks,

Valter


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2012/2/14 Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com>

> On 14 February 2012 19:28, Arif Hossain <etothepowerpi at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> > First install a nice prebuilt flashy easy to use ubuntu/fedora desktop.
> > Then install "virtualbox". Then istall either "gentoo" or
> > freebsd/openbsd into it. Gentoo and these bsd's are built with
> > "distributing software as sources" idea. I would go for BSD's, only
> > because of their elegant "port" system. They have very clean
> > minimalistic and rather easy "building from sources" system than
> > mainstream linux distros. Popular Linux distros have a "binary package
> > management system" at its core. Like debs or rpms. building from sources
> > is always a pain in these. You will always get frustrated about
> > dependencies, ENVs, PATHs, LD_CONFIGs etc. most pain is the upgrading a
> > source install. BSD's have a very nice system of upgrading using cvsup.
> > for binary package distribution system, linux works like a charm. But it
> > realy sucks if you want hack "ls.c" :). which i regularly do in freebsd.
> > Linux is my "Work machine". but when i wanna play, i would go BSD for
> > sure.
>
> This looks like good advice to me and is pretty much what I wanted to
> say, only with more and better technical authority. :¬)
>
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