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  People are boasting about Arch, but my first open-source OS was FreeBSD 4.2, fitting on a single CD-ROM. It included a tiny base system and C compiler, and practically every other package had to be compiled from source, using the ‘ports’ system, which was just a collection of makefiles, one for each package. And you had to be careful to use gmake instead of make, because the default Make was BSD-specific tool incompatible with most of open-source software, which targeted Linux. And you had to m...