> How does FreeBSD manage to stay reasonably secure and stable, yet modern > (compared to Potato)?
I think it's because they don't have a "zero-bugs" release policy like Debian. The base system is stable. The stuff in the ports tree is not, from my experience. I once decided to install gdm on a FreeBSD box... There were *lots* of broken dependencies in the ports tree, and I had to vgrep the missing dependencies in the compile logs. :-/ Besides that, Debian is an "automated configuration paradise" if conpared to FreeBSD. Anyway, if you manage to get over the problems you'll have to get it working, you'll find that *after* it's installed and configured, it's a very stable and powerful system. But -- they don't think twice before adding things to the ports tree. Just because it's "-STABLE", that doesn't mean there can't be new software added to it. And actually, the FreeBSD "-STABLE" is a CVS branch! What they do periodically is to ship snapshots of it. (And of course, the snapshots are carefully prepared). J. -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
