FreeBSD Reduces OS Support From 5 To 4 Years, Continues Collaboration With AMD

[phoronix]

Phoronix: FreeBSD Reduces OS Support From 5 To 4 Years, Continues Collaboration With AMD

The FreeBSD project issued today their Q3'2024 progress report to outline enhancements made to this open-source BSD operating system over the prior quarter...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-2024-Q3-Report

[pWe00Iri3e7Z9lHOX2Qx]

You'll definitely want to use the binary packages on that PinePhone Pro. Building stuff like Firefox from ports would not be fun on that device.

[Luke_Wolf]

You'll definitely want to use the binary packages on that PinePhone Pro. Building stuff like Firefox from ports would not be fun on that device.

The general consensus these days is if you want to use ports you should be using poudriere anyway to build your own package site and then use pkg to manage it rather than trying to manually install ports.

[kpedersen]

The general consensus these days is if you want to use ports you should be using poudriere anyway to build your own package site and then use pkg to manage it rather than trying to manually install ports.

Indeed. Especially since there is a hidden complexity that if you build i.e SDL2 or FLTK immediately on a vanilla install, or if you build the same packages after installing another 100 ports, you would likely end up with quite different binaries in the packages since the GNU configure scripts will detect different dependencies and link against additional libs.

poudriere builds each package in isolation.

[Espionage724]

FreeBSD should get into SDM845; I can already do native Windows ARM and Linux on my OnePlus 6, and FreeBSD would be pretty cool!

[mxan]

The general consensus these days is if you want to use ports you should be using poudriere anyway to build your own package site and then use pkg to manage it rather than trying to manually install ports.

Lol, one of FreeBSD's headline features and you're not even meant to use it? Complete joke of an OS

[Developer12]

Lol, one of FreeBSD's headline features and you're not even meant to use it? Complete joke of an OS

poudriere is a package building tool on FreeBSD. It would be dumb to use something like dpkg directly on ubuntu instead of going through apt.

[Luke_Wolf]

Lol, one of FreeBSD's headline features and you're not even meant to use it? Complete joke of an OS

Ports are like the AUR you can manually git clone your AUR repos and do the makepkg by hand but are you really going to do that rather than use a helper like paru or yay? unless you're on the extremely autistic end of the spectrum the answer is gonna be no. Poudriere lets you easily build your own custom package mirror using Ports rather than manually building on every single system.

[brad0]

Indeed. Especially since there is a hidden complexity that if you build i.e SDL2 or FLTK immediately on a vanilla install, or if you build the same packages after installing another 100 ports, you would likely end up with quite different binaries in the packages since the GNU configure scripts will detect different dependencies and link against additional libs.

poudriere builds each package in isolation.

That's not how things should behave at all. That's very broken.

[brad0]

Lol, one of FreeBSD's headline features and you're not even meant to use it? Complete joke of an OS

That's about as stupid as telling everyone to build RPMs or Debian packages from their respective package sources.