To people who've used FreeBSD ports.

[Weeks]

Is it true that it's the next Jesus Christ compared to traditional Linux packaging systems, apt-get etc?

As as soon as I get the internet back I'm going to be installing FreeBSD, and ports is the main reason I'm switching. I'm sick of the Linux packaging systems.

Thanks in advance,
Weeks.

[electron]

Well.. It is best in a lot of senses to me. But not all of them are easily accepted by most people. The FreeBSD ports system is a system in which you install a given portion of third-party software on the system (and its dependencies) with ease.

Sometimes, though, it does not work (usually when you have an outdated ports-tree), but usually updating the tree fixes it. Some other times the port simply does not install or work anymore, and severe changes are needed. On both cases, the FreeBSD community is usually great at helping solve it.

On the other hand, people many times get used to run `apt-get update && apt-get upgrade` (or the likes, for updating the databases and then upgrading what's needed). The ports system itself does not do that. You have to use something like portupgrade to automate it.

You should just try it yourself

[Banned]

Originally Posted by Weeks

As as soon as I get the internet back I'm going to be installing FreeBSD, and ports is the main reason I'm switching. I'm sick of the Linux packaging systems.

It would help if you describe what exactly your problem with 'Linux packaging systems' is.

[Appocomaster]

FreeBSD has better community support if only because it's actually older than Linux and so is further down the production line, so to speak. And so it's probably slightly better written by now for the average user.