From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Dec 12 23:17:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from y3k.shacknet.nu (ts6m-pool0-72.gti.net [208.216.115.72]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 403B237B417 for ; Wed, 12 Dec 2001 23:17:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from shacknet.nu (localhost.gti.net [127.0.0.1]) by y3k.shacknet.nu (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id fBD7OKY90464; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 02:24:21 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from y3k@gti.net) Received: from 198.151.239.42 (SquirrelMail authenticated user mark) by y3k.shacknet.nu with HTTP; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 02:24:23 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <4476.198.151.239.42.1008228263.squirrel@y3k.shacknet.nu> Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 02:24:23 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: EzBSD aint for me! Was: A breath of fresh air.. From: "Mark Yeck" To: anthony@freebie.atkielski.com In-Reply-To: <005701c183a1$8cd8b430$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <005701c183a1$8cd8b430$0a00000a@atkielski.com> Cc: y3k@gti.net, tech_info@threespace.com, mwm-dated-1008649596.5a3562@mired.org, chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.0.6) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Anthony writes: > Mark writes: > Anyone can use any system for simple tasks, with no previous > experience. The question, though, is whether anyone can install and set > up a system for such use without any previous experience or special IT > background. For Windows or the Mac, the answer is "yes"; for UNIX, the > answer is "no." The comment I responded to was about the skills needed to read email or surf the web on either system. >> She is reasonably intelligent, but i think its >> unlikely that she would be able to set up networking >> in either Windows or FreeBSD without assistance, >> and extremely unlikely that she could install >> either OS on her own. > > Fortunately, Windows comes preinstalled on most new machines, in part > for this reason. True. My point was that I dont think that the typical windows user is capable of installing Windows with no previous experience or special IT background. The users I know who have installed Windows have enough knowledge to install FreeBSD. -mark To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message