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<p>&os; is a community-driven operating system despite it being |
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<p>&os; is a community-driven operating system despite it being |
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sponsored corporately. &os; has active mailing lists, |
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forums, and IRC channels where experienced users and |
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forums, and IRC channels where experienced users and |
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developers are always willing to help the less |
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<p>Unlike some other systems, &os; maintains a clean division |
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All third-party software goes in /usr/local, so if you want to |
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repurpose a machine then it's trivial to simply delete all |
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installed packages and then start installing the ones that you |
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<p>The pkg tool makes working with binary packages |
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people who want the level of configurability that this |
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snapshot and roll back if it didn't work.</p> |
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