vak wrote:
Well OK, I can build GCC from sources then. It would be nice to have a prebuild package though. May be a bit newer, like gcc 5.4 or something.
Is LiteBSD c11 (gnu11) clean? gcc-5.4 defaults to that.
vak wrote:
PC-BSD is a friendly GUI desktop built on top of FreeBSD, much like Ubuntu over Debian. Unfortunately, it's not as stable, and the update/upgrade process seems too fragile. Being an active Ubuntu user for 15 years, I've accustomed that I have to install the OS only once, and then I can continuously upgrade it for years, without any issue. Not so on PC-BSD. Few years ago I've decided to have a separate dedicated BSD notebook, bought a used ThinkPad W500 and installed a PC-BSD 10.0-RC3 on it - the latest one at that time. A few weeks later, when the 10.0-RELEASE came out, the upgrade utility failed and damaged the filesystem. OK, that was just a release candidate, I understand. I reinstalled it. Then the same happened with 10.0 -> 10.1 upgrade, and with 10.1 -> 10.2 again. Yesterday I had to reinstall it once more, this time for 10.3.
Yes, I know what PC-BSD is. I know Kris (the founder and lead developer) quite well

I know for FreeBSD the upgrade process is something like 2 commands: one for base and one for ports. I don't know what Kris does though for PC-BSD.
vak wrote:
I suppose there is something inherently wrong with the BSD update procedure. May be it makes sense to learn something from Debian methodology. Next time I'm going to try
GNU/kFreeBSD instead.
(Remember: don't lump us all together--each of the 4 major BSDs have different upgrade processes.

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