One nice thing about FreeBSD is that the ports system
gives you access to a lot of preconfigured software. Both
FreeBSD and Gentoo Linux take the approach of 'build from
source' for the ports and this has become a cultural thing
for both distributions.

So, occasionally you will see prepackaged, pre compiled
software but its usually commercial. Most open source
stuff under these distro's is built from sources for
cultural reasons.

J

On Fri, 7 May 2004 10:09:10 +0100
"Paul Beach" <pabeach@...> wrote:

>> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/databases/firebird/
>>
>> Or in your friendly local /usr/ports/databases/firebird
>> directory.
>>
>> Warning, its unhappy on pre 5.x FreeBSD, that really
>> impacts folks like me who have servers with 600 day
>> uptimes running old 4.x versions :(
>
>Maybe its just me being stupid here, but is there an
>installable/binary version
>or do you FreeBSD types, always build your own server etc
>from source?
>
>Regards
>Paul
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