Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 05:34:34 -0500 From: Jud <judmarc@fastmail.fm> To: Parv <parv@pair.com>, rfa@msumain.edu.ph Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation - More user friendly Message-ID: <opr4lbnwuw0cf2rk@dialup-67.74.64.58.dial1.philadelphia1.level3.net> In-Reply-To: <20040309032844.GA4690@moo.holy.cow> References: <MIEPLLIBMLEEABPDBIEGOEIJFOAA.Barbish3@adelphia.net> <63602D78-712C-11D8-BA13-003065ABFD92@mac.com> <4261.203.177.105.170.1078798070.squirrel@bayok.msumain.edu.ph> <20040309032844.GA4690@moo.holy.cow>
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On Mon, 8 Mar 2004 22:28:44 -0500, Parv <parv@pair.com> wrote: > in message > <4261.203.177.105.170.1078798070.squirrel@bayok.msumain.edu.ph>, > wrote rfa@msumain.edu.ph thusly... >> >> I just want to know what the moderator thinks about this and the >> ethical conditions that are touched... > > There is no official moderator per se. I think whom you are looking > for is "nanny" or "philosopher" ... > > http://www.winternet.com/~mikelr/flame12.html > http://www.winternet.com/~mikelr/flame17.html > > >> Also are these kinds of posts tolerated? > > Well, you are seeing them on this list, aren't you? This will go on > until one side tires or looses interest, only to be revived some > time later. As always. Just to shoehorn this thread back a bit in the direction whence it came: Looking at <URL: http://www.distrowatch.com/>, specifically the page hit rankings (on the right and down a little), at the moment the 5th-ranked Linux distro with an upward trend is Debian, whose install makes FreeBSD's look like an automated marvel in comparison. 6th-ranked, also with an upward trend, is Gentoo, whose install is also relatively non-automated and whose install instructions (the equivalent of the Handbook sections on installation) are often noted for their difficulty. 8th-ranked, again with an upward trend, is Slackware, whose text-based install is very similar to FreeBSD's, with perhaps a bit more help text available. Granted that the top 4 distros either have automagic installs (Mandrake, Fedora/Red Hat) or no install at all (Knoppix, the Debian-based "live CD"), it appears not to be true that popularity (at least the *nix world version) requires a graphical automated install, were that the goal of the FreeBSD project. Jud
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