Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2006 22:40:07 -0400 From: "David Stanford" <dthomas53@gmail.com> To: "sammy sumer" <sammy.sumer@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What FreeBSD users really want Message-ID: <f2c91f770607221940i5a028eb2o4d88f5d750617d3c@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <8f0d62060607220403j599c1131xfcfb38e6b18c7c6c@mail.gmail.com> References: <8f0d62060607220403j599c1131xfcfb38e6b18c7c6c@mail.gmail.com>
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On 7/22/06, sammy sumer <sammy.sumer@gmail.com> wrote: > > To Whom It May Concern: > > Greeting from Australia > > I commend your efforts and your success. Following are some gripes with > FreeBSD and ideas to fix them. > > I have been using FreeBSD for a few years. I have also played with lots of > Linux distributions but still FreeBSD is my first choice as a computer > system admin and backend web developer. > > But you know what pisses me off about FreeBSD? It is the little things. > > Every Linux Distributor in the world is hard at work reinventing the > interface and making the Linux as user friendly as possible but we're > still > dogged by turn of the century hassle with our FreeBSD. > > Here is what I would fix: > > 1. Reinvent the installer and interface. > > Fundamental thing like system installer is still phenomenally arcane. > There > is no excuse for FreeBSD developers not to upgrade the system installer > and > why not using disk imaging technology like Norton ghost or Acronis > TrueImageinstead of the traditional installation. http://wikitest.freebsd.org/BSDInstaller -David -- [root@fbsd ~]# fortune Happiness is just an illusion, filled with sadness and confusion.
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