06-28-2005, 07:20 AM
Hi there, i am new to PC-BSD and *BSD in general for that matter. I am a Fedora user at the moment.
I have a few questions that i saw someone else bring up as well:
1. It seems that XFree86 was chosen over Xorg - for purely pragmatic reasons, or was that decision influenced by other things?
2. The binary package management appears to be easy to use. How will security updates be handled, will there be a binary patch system, or does the entire recompiled and updated program need to be downloaded and reinstalled?
3. Will PC-BSD's own package manager somehow collaborate with with FreeBSD's ports and package system? I mean, when I run e.g. portaudit on a PC-BSD system, will it pick up problems with programs installed with .pbi's too, how are those packages registered with the system?
4. Will there be an easy way to upgrade to new releases of PC-BSD once they are out?
I have a few questions that i saw someone else bring up as well:
1. It seems that XFree86 was chosen over Xorg - for purely pragmatic reasons, or was that decision influenced by other things?
2. The binary package management appears to be easy to use. How will security updates be handled, will there be a binary patch system, or does the entire recompiled and updated program need to be downloaded and reinstalled?
3. Will PC-BSD's own package manager somehow collaborate with with FreeBSD's ports and package system? I mean, when I run e.g. portaudit on a PC-BSD system, will it pick up problems with programs installed with .pbi's too, how are those packages registered with the system?
4. Will there be an easy way to upgrade to new releases of PC-BSD once they are out?