From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Jul 20 10:37:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from odin.acuson.com (odin.acuson.com [157.226.230.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F35737B7E0 for ; Thu, 20 Jul 2000 10:37:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from djohnson@acuson.com) Received: from acuson.com ([157.226.69.47]) by odin.acuson.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.54) with ESMTP id AAA20C2; Thu, 20 Jul 2000 10:39:45 -0700 Message-ID: <39773862.DFD6493A@acuson.com> Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 10:35:30 -0700 From: David Johnson Organization: Acuson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marty Poulin Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: new books, changing my pt. of view References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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