...You're surprised that a dead OS...
At peak times, Netflix generates over 35% of all the traffic [appleinsider.com] on the US portion of the Internet. Guess what "dead" OS powers the servers that create all that traffic?
Because BSD is only good for hosting static files. Good luck trying to get any modern web dev language running on it without attempting to compile it yourself, and get frustrated with the dependency hell it creates.
Trouble is, whatever I get with pkg never has the options I need enabled, so I have to go back to using ports, then I get messy dependency issues "X needs Y to be newer than version B, but Z needs Y to be older than version A". With RHEL and similar, the binary packages tend to have kitchen sink enabled by default, which is better suited for my use cases.
....I get messy dependency issues "X needs Y to be newer than version B, but Z needs Y to be older than version A".
Yeah, I just ran into that when I tried to install two different packages on the Debian 8 install on my notebook. I even tried a fresh install of Debian 8, and I still had problems doing pkg installs.
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I've never seen it on FreeBSD, though. Even when I'm compiling ports.
To each his/her own, I guess....
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They just now added 802.11n support? (Score:3)
Tell me that there's actually been a way to do it all along, but now there's just a better way.
Re: They just now added 802.11n support? (Score:0, Troll)
You're surprised that a dead OS is way behind on supporting wireless standards? Why?
*BSD is dead.
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...You're surprised that a dead OS... At peak times, Netflix generates over 35% of all the traffic [appleinsider.com] on the US portion of the Internet. Guess what "dead" OS powers the servers that create all that traffic?
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Because BSD is only good for hosting static files. Good luck trying to get any modern web dev language running on it without attempting to compile it yourself, and get frustrated with the dependency hell it creates.
That said, still better than Windows.
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Obviously you haven't worked much with FreeBSD. But then maybe "pkg install python35" is too hard for you.
Re: They just now added 802.11n support? (Score:4, Interesting)
Trouble is, whatever I get with pkg never has the options I need enabled, so I have to go back to using ports, then I get messy dependency issues "X needs Y to be newer than version B, but Z needs Y to be older than version A". With RHEL and similar, the binary packages tend to have kitchen sink enabled by default, which is better suited for my use cases.
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....I get messy dependency issues "X needs Y to be newer than version B, but Z needs Y to be older than version A".
Yeah, I just ran into that when I tried to install two different packages on the Debian 8 install on my notebook. I even tried a fresh install of Debian 8, and I still had problems doing pkg installs.
.
I've never seen it on FreeBSD, though. Even when I'm compiling ports.
To each his/her own, I guess....