From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 16 18: 0:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.plug.cx (kypo.alfred.cx [150.101.93.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9F7E37B40A for ; Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:00:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail.plug.cx (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 54A4E2B8B7; Mon, 17 Sep 2001 10:33:00 +0930 (CST) Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 10:32:59 +0930 From: Andrew Reid To: Richard Shea Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why FreeBSD over Redhat Linux? Message-ID: <20010917103259.D10666@plug.cx> References: <004a01c13f04$378b9c40$5eeaf7a5@oemcomputer>; <20010917093008.B10507@plug.cx> <3BA5E867.11980.178C6F64@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3BA5E867.11980.178C6F64@localhost>; from rshea@thecubagroup.com on Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 12:11:19PM +1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 12:11:19PM +1200, Richard Shea wrote: > > For some definition of "graphical", though not in the sense that you're > > suggesting, I feel. > > Just my 2c on this front - I think it's fair to say it's "graphical > enough". You are provided with a series of menus from which you > are invited to pick selections. You don't have to edit config files etc > to do the install. I found it very friendly. Me too. The only area in which (I believe) the RedHat installer seems to excel in is disk partitioning. Whilst the FreeBSD installer isn't too bad, it can be a bit scary for new users. > In some senses the larger issue isn't telling the machine what you > want so much as knowing what the significance of some of your > answers are. That is just as true of FreeBSD as Linux. Hmm... - andrew -- void signature () { cout << "Andrew Reid -- andrew.reid@plug.cx" << endl ; cout << "Cell: +61 401 946 813" << endl; cout << "Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur" << endl; } To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message