What strikings me, or surprises me is that many "ports/packages" compile just fine on freebsd where they don't on gentoo-linux, which you would expect.
The RPM-based distros are just soulless for me, though. I know they are going for ease-of-use and avoiding dependency-hell with their Software/App Stores using Snapd/Flatpak/containerd environments for applications, but it just seems pointless to me because that's what Windows is for.taiwan740 ,
In SuSE you can choose the wicked network manager and leave NetworkManager aside. You can also handle YaST in console.
I also used Debian Xfce without any widgets, just using wpa_supplicant and /etc/network/intefaces, like on FreeBSD.
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I like "devuan". It even makes my Brother printer work.
There's a pattern with those kind of projects failing due to lack of developers/interest.
Yeah, it is a bit reinventing the wheel, but I did like trying out these kinds of projects in 2000-2010. In fact, earlier this year I tried to get a laptop working with Debian kFreeBSD but it's just fell into dependency hell, something to do with libffm if I recall correctly, and also something to do with the FreeBSD kernel determining the architecture as "amd64" but the GNU userland reporting it as "x86_64" so build tools (I think this was meson...) couldn't determine the config.
Thank you for open sourcing CDE.
It really stems from my original OpenCDE project here (screenshots).
I messed with it some. Even got a mixed Openbsd / Gentoo-freebsd IPSec VPN working. I gave up on it at the end because it was essentially a new platform. It wasn't Linux or Freebsd, but rather its own thing.
A lot of X software was messy at the time. Large projects also tended to become a mess as kludges evolved to work around dillemmas. In other words not really solutions.
Just now, I saw that the Handbook has been updated, and has a chapter on Wayland...
). I have some prior experience with simple Linux distro (Ubuntu & Xubuntu), and FreeBSD revealed itself to me as a perfect answer to the question: "Which distro should I move to to advance my Linux knowledgde?". Irony intended. Getting a dual-boot FreeBSD and Gentoo system working is a fun challenge if you want to scrape a little deeper than the 'buntu'sI have been using FreeBSD for a week now (well, using and using, mainly testing and setting up, but it is definitely a keeper
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That was my experience when I used gentoo many years ago. There were all kinds of issues with "masking" and "emerge" would fail all the time for various types of reasons. At least when something fails on FreeBSD it is not too hard to figure out what the problem is and the fix is relatively straight-forward. You don't need to go down the "rabbit hole", so to speak, and spend countless hours screwing around with the configuration.
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You can still get to have this kind of fun on Freebsd if you mix packages you didn't build with ports.
Yep, especially if you do a kernel/world update like to STABLE or CURRENT, some things that are already installed with pkg, you need to reinstall with ports. At least ports does report to the package manager, which is way better than if you download a .tar.gz from the internet and compile from source.
Ports do download a tarball from Internet and compile from source, y'know...
make install, make deinstall, make reinstall work with much less dependency nonsense than pkg.Yes but I believe it's scripted so that it updates the pkg database when the port installs. So pkg "knows" you have installed xorg from ports, for example.
./configure && make && make install I don't think pkg has any idea that piece of software is installed and therefore doesn't know that xorg already being there satisfies the dependency when you do pkg install xfce4 later, pkg is going to download and install the xorg package again.