Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 10:35:30 -0700 From: David Johnson <djohnson@acuson.com> To: Marty Poulin <mpoulin@honk.org> Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: new books, changing my pt. of view Message-ID: <39773862.DFD6493A@acuson.com> References: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1000720094117.17418A-100000@spectre.honk.org>
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Marty Poulin wrote: > > On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, David Johnson wrote: > > > > > FreeBSD has never catered to the newbie crowd, and I doubt it ever will. > > This is a Good Thing. > > I wholeheartedly disagree. My very first experience with Unix was to put > the 2.2.5-Release boot disk into a spare 486 and start installing FreeBSD > using FTP over a 28.8 modem. > It was a long and steep learning curve, but if someone is determined to > learn Unix, I could not recommend a better OS than FreeBSD. About 99% of newbies who had some small measure of determination could successfully learn FreeBSD and graduate into the intermediate or expert user classes. That wasn't my point. When I look at the Linux distributions that are catering to the newbie crowd, I see stuff that I don't want in FreeBSD. For example, if you look at Corel LinuxOS, you see missing administration and development tools, GUI front-ends for everything else, and little or no choice about which applications to install. This is not necessarily a Bad Thing for Corel, and actually makes sense for its target audience. But FreeBSD is the opposite. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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