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Re:Ask YC: Anyone using *BSD for hosting instead of Linux? by rkts on Tuesday December 11, 2007 @08:09PM (#88481)
I disagree strongly on the ports collection. I find it more flexible, up-to-date and easy to use than Debian's packages.
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Re:Ask YC: Anyone using *BSD for hosting instead of Linux? by andrewf on Wednesday December 12, 2007 @12:19AM (#88591)
The up-to-date bit is my main issue. AFAIK the FreeBSD ports tree is never forked into a release branch which receives security updates and nothing else. And you'll find randomly broken stuff from time to time.
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