Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 11:05:31 +0200 (CEST) From: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@webgiro.com> To: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> Cc: administrator@haugstad.com, small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What now? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9906171102350.1306-100000@freja.webgiro.com> In-Reply-To: <19990617085740.12511@welearn.com.au>
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On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Sue Blake wrote: > You always get what you pay for. With free unix you pay for it with study. > Unix is not designed to be user-friendly, but it is designed to do its > job very well. You have to become machine-friendly instead. > > PicoBSD is the worst way to learn unix that I can think of. It is a > very cut down version of a large powerful operating system, set up to > do a specific task for those who know what they are doing. There is no > documentation, no "help", you just have to know it. > > A better idea would be to get yourself a 486 or better with at least > 300MB disk space and install FreeBSD, not PicoBSD, and start learning. [...] > Well that's my opinion. Others on this list are welcome to disagree. I fully agree with you. PicoBSD is not for the faint of heart EVEN if you know Unix... :-/ Andrzej Bialecki // <abial@webgiro.com> WebGiro AB, Sweden (http://www.webgiro.com) // ------------------------------------------------------------------- // ------ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve. http://www.freebsd.org -------- // --- Small & Embedded FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ ---- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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