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Twentieth anniversary of the FreeBSD Ports Tree

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Fond memories (Score: 1, Interesting)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-08-27 23:29 (#2QYW)

Back in the day FreeBSD came on DVDs with everything needed to get your system up and running. DSL was just rolling out. Dialup and ISDN were the norm. Today it is easy to just grab whatever you need from the net. Ports tree rocks!

Re: Fond memories (Score: 2, Interesting)

by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2014-08-28 10:18 (#2R4M)

Makes for easier distribution, too. That said, I live in a place with crappy bandwidth and kind of miss DVD installs. I frequently go buy the disks from a place like osdisks.com or whatever they're advertising on distrowatch, just because it's hard to get an uncorrupted ISO downloaded. It's cool to buy for example the Debian repository and have the equivalent of that whole ports tree on 27 DVDs or something, I forget how big it is. Useful if you live in a place with net that approximates dial-up.

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