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Re:The FreeBSD Foundation falls short of its 2012 fundraisin... by ChuckMcM on Monday December 10, 2012 @01:02AM (#4897764)
The only thing I like better about Linux than I do about FreeBSD is that usually there is a package available for many things, no compiling, just apt-get install and you're done.
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Re:The FreeBSD Foundation falls short of its 2012 fundraisin... by X-Istence on Monday December 10, 2012 @03:51AM (#4898140)
Preliminary support for pkgng is going to be in FreeBSD 9.1, but FreeBSD 10 it is going to be the default:

http://wiki.freebsd.org/pkgng

pkgng is basically the next upgrade from the current package system/ports tree to having the possibility of having a full binary only system. pkg allows you to manage your packages using repositories that can provide your software, much like apt-get. On the plus side, you also get the power of the ports tree, so you can very easily compile newer packages yourself and host them as a repository, especially if you have to manage multiple FreeBSD systems.

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