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Re:Install Ruby 2.1, Rails and Passenger on Ubuntu by FooBarWidget on Saturday February 08, 2014 @04:55PM (#7202939)
In fact I have multiple OpenBSD and FreeBSD virtual machines installed. I run them regularly to test software. But my OpenBSD installs are from several years ago so maybe things have changed nowadays. However, on FreeBSD 9, all the stuff I can get from pkg_add is old. I always end up having to compile from ports. Years ago I had a FreeBSD 6 server. Ports updates always ended up breaking things (in addition to taking forever to compile) so I switched away from FreeBSD at some point.

I'm not saying that there are no software for OpenBSD. I'm not saying that OpenBSD is not capable of running lots of stuff. I'm saying that for anything recent, you often end up having to compile software from source, which wastes CPU. I'm saying that if things go wrong then finding someone who can provide support is much harder than with Linux.

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Re:Install Ruby 2.1, Rails and Passenger on Ubuntu by c-bayprogrammer on Sunday February 09, 2014 @12:36AM (#7204523)
> I'm saying that for anything recent, you often end up having to compile software from source...

With regards to OpenBSD, your statement is factually incorrect. Most packages are up to date with OpenBSD. FreeBSD is not OpenBSD. Users of OpenBSD are discouaraged from compiling direclty from ports unless they have a good reason (and 99% of the time there is not a good reason.)

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Re:Install Ruby 2.1, Rails and Passenger on Ubuntu by FooBarWidget on Sunday February 09, 2014 @11:52AM (#7206041)
Interesting, I guess my exposure to OpenBSD has been too limited.
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