Re: Freebsd 6 is released:

On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 08:25:48AM -0900, Matthew Schumacher wrote:
> I wonder if the filesystem is really any faster, if so them my two
> biggest complaints about Freebsd are now resolved: Filesystem
> performance and nsswitch support.
Really? I don't know anything about nsswitch, but UFS2 has always been
pretty fast for me.

> I also see that it supports packages which I need since I compile my own
> packages and use them to distribute software, but I don't see anything
> about upgrading packages.

Look into the "portupgrade" command; it's my understanding that it
knows how to do package-based upgrades, in addition to ports-based
upgrades.

    --Mac

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Julian "Mac" Mason                            mac@cs.hmc.edu
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Harvey Mudd College
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