> And FreeBSD ports are surprisingly easy to manage too. It's been ages since I've used FreeBSD, but I have fond memories of using portupgrade (and portinstall

> And FreeBSD ports are surprisingly easy to manage too. It's been ages since I've used FreeBSD, but I have fond memories of using portupgrade (and portinstall, which comes with it) to manage source-based ports. It's probably faster to do make && make install instead, but the automation from portupgrade is useful and the -c/-C options can be helpful, as is its control over when to clean the package build dir. I sort of grew up with the BSDs as my first introduction to a Unix-like environment, and in all honesty it was the reason I first migrated to Gentoo when I started using Linux (the Gentoo way was more familiar). I now use Arch for personal use (and Ubuntu for services), but I think the FreeBSD philosophy is in many ways superior. Clunky, perhaps, but usually void of unnecessary complexity.