Thread: Why do you love your BSD of choice?
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Old 11th March 2011
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Originally Posted by vermaden View Post
You mean that now there are scripts for services that You can start/stop as in BSD?
You mean FreeBSD? regardless.. I'm not entirely sure of the implementation, but there is some fairly extensive documentation for in going on in 4.9/-CURRENT.

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Originally Posted by vermaden View Post
For example fluxbox version is 5 years old now in OpenBSD's Ports: http://openports.se/x11/fluxbox
The Fluxbox developers hadn't made a release for several years, and the resulting development releases were unstable and crashed often.. nobody seems to care enough to deal with the upstream.

All the important stuff is maintained quite adequately, they have ports hackathons quite frequently.. it's a lot of work to deal with all the library dependencies out there these days.
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