Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2006 19:18:58 +0100 From: Freminlins <freminlins@gmail.com> To: "White Hat" <pigskin_referee@yahoo.com> Cc: FreeBSD Users Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: solaris Message-ID: <eeef1a4c0609061118n575b8abah38f24f83ec4bb2c4@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20060906155419.95441.qmail@web34402.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <eeef1a4c0609060809y3da277c7r456df1c18f38bf6a@mail.gmail.com> <20060906155419.95441.qmail@web34402.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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On 06/09/06, White Hat <pigskin_referee@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > Immaterial. the singularly most important feature is > suitability to task. If it is free and it does not > work, what good is it? It depends what you are using it for. You made a comment about "occaisonal word processing" (pasted below). For such use OpenOffice is perfectly good enough. > Yes, the lack of documentation is a shame. In Windows, yes. In FreeBSD I can't see a lack. > The same lack of documentation > plagues every facet of software today. No it doesn't. FreeBSD is well documented. However, you have made my point. No I haven't. I have contradicted your point. You said " A very large majority of users simply want to use their PCs for email, occasional word processing and possible game playing." I am saying that using XP as you suggested is not as easy as you suggest for a very large number of people. If a user cannot > decipher how to configure a simple thing like Outlook > Express, and there are programs available that will do > it for them, then how are they suppose to be capable > of handling a CLI OS like FreeBSD? It boggles the mind > -- at least mine. Worse, the configuration of OE is > handled by a wizard. It is truly sad when a user > cannot configure something when it is simplified down > to that level. It's not so much the wizards, but third party applications like virus scanners which change those settings which is a part of the problem. But you are not quite comparing apples with apples. Configuring Thunderbird on FreeBSD is near enough identical to doing the same on Windows. I wouldn't however expect a complete computer novice to be able to set up a FreeBSD box without some help. How? Drop in two CDs or download the programs, run > them and case closed. Neither one requires any > significant configuration. The defaults work just fine > for most users. You could eliminate the Counter Spy > since ZA has its own proprietary SpyWare program, but > I just happen to prefer Counter Spy. Your statement is simply wrong. AV and anti-spyware DO require configuration. And they do require installing, and maybe downloading, and being kept up to date. The defaults certainly don't work all the time in all cases. Have a look here: " http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/06/faulty_ca_update/". I have heard of broken installations for Norton numerous times. And trying to help these customers is time-consuming for our techies. Frem.
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