[fpc-other] Your thoughts on cloud based server instances?

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On 2017-03-10 11:02, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> As for the user installed programs or services (eg: Apache, Firebird
> etc), I always do those via the FreeBSD ports system. And again, that
> has worked out very well for me. I don't like binary package systems
> (with hard-code dependencies).
> 

What do you mean by binary package systems:
https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/pkgng-intro.html
4.4. Using pkg for Binary Package Management

I'm not a fan of gentoo compile everything from source, as it takes 
longer, serves little purpose, contributes wasted cpu heat to global 
warming ;-)