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Comment by sehugg

6 days ago

I used FreeBSD as my daily desktop for a while in the 2000s. IIRC, the package manager had to compile each package from source, but that wasn't a huge deal. Things just worked in a non-overly-clever fashion.

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elcritch  6 days ago

They added binary packages.

  • Gud  5 days ago

    Binary packages were there in the 2000s also.

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