Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 12:12:48 +0200 (MET DST) From: Nick Hibma <nick.hibma@jrc.it> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, FreeBSD hackers mailing list <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: 2.2.6 CD-ROM : Package dependencies up the creek ? Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95q.980616120907.28003e-100000@elect8> In-Reply-To: <v04011719b1abcdaaf014@[128.113.24.47]>
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Jordan,
I think that last paragraph should be on a list of quotes of users on
the FreeBSD home pages.
>...
> Still, I don't want to seem like I'm carping too much here. In these
> past two weeks I have also been doing my first investigations of
> WindowsNT, and I've found that much more irritating than anything
> with FreeBSD. And *that's* with a box that came with WinNT already
> installed and running, compared to doing a freebsd install from
> scratch. While I ran into problems with both systems because I was
> new to them, by the time I worked my way thru those problems on
> FreeBSD I felt I had learned something and had a better idea of how
> FreeBSD worked. While I also solved problems under my WinNT install,
> it was more like winning the lottery. If you try enough things it
> will eventually work, but I never felt like I was getting "more
> comfortable" with how the pieces of the system fit together.
>...
> Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
> Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu
> Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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