From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Dec 12 23: 0:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-31-201-166.mmcable.com [65.31.201.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7715A37B416 for ; Wed, 12 Dec 2001 23:00:28 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 71910 invoked by uid 100); 13 Dec 2001 07:00:27 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15384.21003.678808.340863@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 01:00:27 -0600 To: , Cc: Subject: Re: EzBSD aint for me! Was: A breath of fresh air.. In-Reply-To: <005701c183a1$8cd8b430$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <003701c18398$07091d30$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <4290.198.151.239.42.1008226016.squirrel@y3k.shacknet.nu> <005701c183a1$8cd8b430$0a00000a@atkielski.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA v0.42/Python 2.1.1 (freebsd4) From: "Mike Meyer" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Anthony Atkielski types: > Mark writes: > > I consider my sister a typical Windows user. She > > has browsed the internet and read her email under > > UNIX on two occasions that I know of, with no > > previous UNIX experience. > Anyone can use any system for simple tasks, with no previous experience. > The question, though, is whether anyone can install and set up a system for > such use without any previous experience or special IT background. For > Windows or the Mac, the answer is "yes"; for UNIX, the answer is "no." For the few Unix systems you have experience with, the answer may be no. For others, the answer is yes. > > She is reasonably intelligent, but i think its > > unlikely that she would be able to set up networking > > in either Windows or FreeBSD without assistance, > > and extremely unlikely that she could install > > either OS on her own. > Fortunately, Windows comes preinstalled on most new machines, in part for > this reason. Windows doesn't come preinstalled on Suns, SunOS does. In part for this reason. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message