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Why is FreeBSD deprecating GCC in favor of Clang/LLVM?

So I was surfing the net and stumbled upon this article. It basically states that FreeBSD, starting from Version 10 and above will deprecate GCC in favor of Clang/LLVM. From what I have seen around ...
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Why does FreeBSD use the GPL-licensed GCC?

Why does FreeBSD use GCC as its default compiler? I am under the impression that a core pillar of the FreeBSD philosophy is not to use any GNU software and in particular, GPL code. Yet GCC which is ...
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Install byobu (screen-profiles) on FreeBSD

I've got mostly Ubuntu servers, but have a need for 2 FreeBSD boxes. On all of the Ubuntu systems I've gotten extremely used to having Byobu on top of GNU Screen. I've been trying to figure out how to ...
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FreeBSD 9.1 buildworld fails in libclangsema

I just went thru and updated a dozen or so machines from 9.0-RELEASE to 9.1-RELEASE and the last one is dieing during buildworld: c++ -O2 -pipe ...
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How to install LuaJIT on FreeBSD without using Gmake?

Has anyone been able to install LuaJIT v2 on FreeBSD AMD64(x64) without using Gmake (just freebsd-make)? If so how? When I attempt to use freebsd-make, LuaJIT doesn't build.
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'dereferencing pointer to incomplete type' in compiling FreeBSD 4.2 custom system call - FreeBSD [closed]

I already posted this question on Stack overflow, but no luck there: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14784525/dereferencing-pointer-to-incomplete-type-in-compiling-freebsd-custom-system-caF I am ...
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FreeBSD source and how to build

A few questions about FreeBSD Where/how should I obtain the source code (ex. through terminal, Download off website) How (on ubuntu) should I build it? Before I build it can I customize it (in other ...