Sam Gleske on 13 Mar 2012 17:36:42 -0700


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Re: [PLUG] Source-Based Distros


On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 8:32 PM, Casey Bralla <MailList@nerdworld.org> wrote:
> Anybody have any suggestions on which to try next?

Casey,
FreeBSD and their ports system is really nice.  It's similar to Gentoo
in that everything is compiled and updates are source packages which
are compiled and installed for the system.  Ports is what their update
system is, here's a link to docs.

http://www.freebsd.org/ports/index.html

Not Linux but a really nice Unix.

SAM
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