Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral

2001-07-10 Thread Rajappa Iyer
Jamie Bowden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 10 Jul 2001, Rajappa Iyer wrote: > :One of the nice things I like about FreeBSD (and I daresay I'm not > :alone in this) is that when I install it, I know that I'll get a > :kernel with a corresponding full and fun

Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral

2001-07-10 Thread Rajappa Iyer
system' as a bunch of (meta)packages as the thin edge of the wedge---pretty soon FreeBSD will resemble the hodge-podge collection of different (often conflicting) packages that Linux is. Rajappa -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a.k.a. Rajappa Iyer. They also surf who stand in the

Sysadmin article

2001-06-14 Thread Rajappa Iyer
http://www.sysadminmag.com/articles/2001/0107/0107a/0107a.htm Any obvious reasons why FreeBSD performed so poorly for these people? rsi -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a.k.a. Rajappa Iyer. They also surf who stand in the waves. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "

Re: Is FreeBSD dead ?(NO)

2000-03-11 Thread Rajappa Iyer
rust as well. I see no reason to be concerned about the demise of FreeBSD as we know and love it. Rajappa -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a.k.a. Rajappa Iyer.New York, New York. Where would we be without rhetorical questions? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: A new package fetching utility, pkg_get

1999-09-26 Thread Rajappa Iyer
Tony Finch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Rajappa Iyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >1. It does a terrible job at tracking dependencies, IMHO. If you > > install packages A, B and C at the same time and A depends on C, > > it's not smart enough to inst

Re: A new package fetching utility, pkg_get

1999-09-24 Thread Rajappa Iyer
which lets you fetch binary, compiled packages instead of source tarballs and still do: "cd /usr/ports/x11/gnome; make -DUSE_BINARY_PACKAGES install" Thanks, Rajappa -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a.k.a. Rajappa Iyer.New York, New York. We're too busy mopping th

Re: a two-level port system? (fwd)

1999-05-31 Thread Rajappa Iyer
age for. In an ideal world, it would reduce the burden of the ports maintainers and increase the number of packages available off the bat for FreeBSD. (Hey, one can hope, can't one?) This would also allow FreeBSD to share ports with {Net|Open}BSD. What do people think? rsi -- a.k.a. Rajappa