Re: GENTOO
  By: The Immortal to Ibanez on Thu Mar 20 2008 06:49 pm

 > *BSD for the win.

That's 'teh win'

 > Like I'ma let an OS sit and bootstrap and compile for itself on a 2 or
 > 3ghz PC for days before I can get on it in any entertaining or gratifying
 > fashion.

Good call.

 > :( Wait bsd does that too basically

Huh wha?  I'm not aware of any BSD which does that.

 > no apt-get or slapt-get or trusted precompiled binaries, but it's rare I
 > have to chase down any dependencies by hand. It's usually some
 > ungoogle'able lib module.so or Door library if there's an inconvenience.

``pkg_add -r'' is what you're looking for apparently.

And trusted by whom eh?  To me a trusted binary is one that I've looked at the
code to and have convinced myself it's solid.  Which is to say, none of the
ones on my system.

 > The entire current populace of unix users do not seem to know of, or
 > recall what a "BBS" or "door games" are.
Upsetting in the pants.

FreeBSD comes with a SyncTERM package.  Besides, UNIX users always knew that
BBSs were just wannabe UNIX systems.

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