Date: Sun, 13 Jul 1997 11:14:31 +1000 From: Giles Lean <giles@nemeton.com.au> To: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: My opinion about freebsd (fwd) Message-ID: <26802.868756471@nemeton.com.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970711170623.4049A-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu>
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On Sat, 12 Jul 1997 11:28:44 -0700 (PDT) Annelise Anderson wrote: > It seems it's not the usability once installed and > configured, it's getting to that point (partly a documentation problem, > partly just the inherent complexity of the system). I can tell you horror stories about the installation of Windows 95. Windows is more aggressive about probing hardware, which is a win for inexperienced users *when it gets it right*. FreeBSD's rather more "you tell me" approach has a far higher success rate than Windows in the case that the user *does* know the setup of the hardware. > I'm pretty close here to talking myself into a position about > which I'm not really enthusiastic--that to run FreeBSD you need to > acquire a good deal of the knowledge of a unix professional (including > some knowledge of C) and that my hypothetical dissident in the provinces > isn't going to make it. You seemed more optimistic in the first paragraph! The knowledge you list here *helps*, no doubt about it, but I don't think it is essential. I've had a MVS operator run up NetBSD-0.9 (some years back, of course) and start learning C programming. A non-political dissident, perhaps. :-) Regards, Giles
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