Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 29th Oct 2007 20:24 UTC, submitted by FreeBSD_User
"FreeBSD 7.0 will be the next release of FreeBSD, and is the first major release in 2 years. It's due out some time later this year (currently in pre-release and available for testing). FreeBSD 7.0 brings major changes to the BSD and open
source operating system landscape." This document [.pdf] describes all the changes.
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2005-11-29
I have recompiled world close to a bagillion times. I don't think I've ever had it crap out on me once. The only time I've had trouble is following current instead of a stable branch... even then, current is usually pretty reliable unless you're unlucky.
apt is no silver bullet. My ubuntu system has had all sorts of little hiccups when upgrading to new releases... things like xmms sound suddenly quit working (and never worked again), or other programs just got screwed up. And even worse -- no error in the upgrade process was reported... the problems virtually impossible to solve.
That being said -- what FreeBSD really needs is a SANE update system for ports/packages. It's not so much that ports sucks, or pkg_add sucks... it's that there's no really good high level piece of software that can update stuff safely. I know some of this stuff exists -- but hey -- it tanked my system too many times so I quit using it.