Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 05:38:20 -0500 (EST) From: Ralph Huntington <rjh@mohawk.net> To: Szilveszter Adam <sziszi@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu>, security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installer Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011010524330.23701-100000@mohegan.mohawk.net> In-Reply-To: <21847.973068937@winston.osd.bsdi.com>
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> > complaints I get from people installing FreeBSD for the first time. Just > > imagine, your install went through flawlessly, you were too afraid to touch > > too many options during it, now you have rebooted, and there you go... but > > what to do now. In OpenBSD there is at least an afterboot(8) man page that Puh-lease. I install and admin many BSD machines, mostly FreeBSD and OpenBSD, and I would say that OpenBSD requires more knowledge to make something useful - out of the box - than FreeBSD does. I clearly recall the first time I installed OpenBSD (after about four years of FreeBSD experience). I sat there wondering "Okay, what now." It was not clear at all. Eventually I found the afterboot man page and I did think that was useful, but it was in no way easier or more intuitive than FreeBSD's sysinstall. IMNSHO, I think FreeBSD is the easiest unix or unix-like OS to install and configure. Really, I hardly see what there is to complain about. As soon as you boot the first time, you get led right back to sysinstall where you can make the fresh install into a server or a workstation or whatever, without really having to know very much at all. There's my 25 cents. Thanks for listening. - Ralph To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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