Re: Why are you on a *nix desktop?

I'm running FreeBSD, and on FreeBSD most of the packages have their
configurations in /usr/local/etc rather than /etc. (And there's no
/opt
at all.)

The stuff in /etc is config for the OS-included stuff, like the
networking, firewall, DNS, etc. The only thing that I've run into is
that there are variables in /etc that control whether packages are
automatically started at boot (or not). In those cases, you have to
manually retype those variables. (If you look in /usr/local/etc/rc.d
on FreeBSD, you can see all the things that might start at boot --
then you have to manually re-create the entries in /etc/rc.conf -- a
minor pain...)

Cool, Scott. Sounds like a better organization than most. FreeBSD is one
of the few I haven't actually experienced and/or administered. :) I think
the "Free" part scares off most organizations.

Dennis Lovelady
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