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* Peter da Silva <peter@xxxxxxx.xxx> [2005-04-22 08:22 -0500]:
> > My distribution of choice is Debian. I like that with a simple command,
> > or a simple instruction in one of the GUI frontends, I can install
> > almost any kind of software.
>
> That was a great idea FreeBSD came up with, wasn't it?
Is this the ports system, or something else? (The only *BSD I'm even
moderately familiar with is OpenBSD.) If you're referring to ports, than
I consider the ability to install precompiled binaries to be a significant
improvement. If I wanted to recompile all of my programs every time I
installed them (and still run Linux), I'd use Gentoo.
> Personally, I prefer not having to run installers at all because apps
> don't have to get installed in 10 separate directories at once.
The trick is to have good *un*installers. I shouldn't have to worry about
where programs put their files. This is a computer, and computers are
good at keeping track of fiddly stuff like that. This is one thing I
think Debian does very well, and much better than any system I've seen on
Windows, at least.
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