FreeBSD package management with Pkg (1/2)

FreeBSD is a server operating system popular among more experienced administrators. It's also often used in appliances or embedded products and it makes a nice desktop, too, if you are a bit more proficient with it. Sure, you don't read about it all the time. This is because of two things: 1) Linux is usually …

The history of *nix package management

Very few people will argue against the statement that Unix-like operating systems conquered the (professional) world due to a whole lot of strong points - one of which is package management. Whenever you take a look at another *nix OS or even just another Linux distro, one of the first things (if not the first!) …