From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 18 4:32:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailc.telia.com (mailc.telia.com [194.22.190.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 710C537B423 for ; Fri, 18 Aug 2000 04:32:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ents02 (t2o90p108.telia.com [195.67.216.228]) by mailc.telia.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id NAA10848; Fri, 18 Aug 2000 13:32:43 +0200 (CEST) From: "James A Wilde" To: "Kevin Oberman" Cc: "cyberstorm" , Subject: RE: BSD Inquiry... Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 13:35:20 +0200 Message-ID: <002a01c00908$639e7010$8208a8c0@iqunlimited.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: <200008172051.e7HKpdU14247@ptavv.es.net> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Kevin Oberman > Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2000 22:52 > To: James A Wilde > Cc: cyberstorm; questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: BSD Inquiry... > > I think you make this sound much worse than it is. FreeBSD puts a lot > of effort into making installation and modification of the system > simple. The FreeBSD ports/package system, for example, seem far more > advanced than Linux. > You are right, Kevin, that I exaggerated a little. There were good reasons for this but they are not applicable to all users, of course. I think that my further comments on this should more appropriately be made on the newbie list, and I'll do that when I've had time to put virtual pen to v-paper. But the point I was trying to make was that nobody makes 'user'*-friendly installation like Microsoft. Solaris - at least on the free version 7 I have - comes closest. Some Linux distributions - people who know mention especially the Corel distribution in this context - are also very good. FreeBSD just isn't in the same ballpark. You have to have a good idea of what you are doing to do anything at all. I'm not trying to start a flame war here, just presenting my own point of view. I estimate that my point of view lies well above the 'user'* level - I'm a good NT system administrator - but well below the average 'hacker'** level in this conference. * 'user' = a little above the Homer Simpson level ** 'hacker' = someone who dreams in c mvh/regards James To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message