Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 21:44:50 -0700 From: Joey Garcia <bear@pacificnet.net> To: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Wishlist for FreeBSD Message-ID: <3.0.1.32.19980421214450.006986f8@pacificnet.net>
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Hey all, I'm posting this to freebsd-advocacy because maybe this might help the way that FreeBSD is updated/enhanced so that new users can easily move from a Windows or Linux enviroment. Might help FreeBSD become more user friendly perhaps. I was wondering...does FreeBSD have a wishlist? I assume it doesn't. I am wondering if a wishlist would be helpfull for the Core Team to find out what it is that would make FreeBSD more usable by new users and/or find out what it is that users would like in upcoming versions of FreeBSD. I am migrating for a Linux world, and I find the way that FreeBSD partitions it's drives kinda confusing. Perhaps, simplifying the partitioning process would make things easier for setup. In Linux...my dos partition is /dev/hda1 and my Linux swap partition is /dev/hda2 and my Linux root partition is /dev/hda3. I think it's pretty simple. My cdrom drive is found as the second device on the first IDE controller...therefore it is /dev/hdb. Perhaps this simplicity is a bad thing. I don't know. I gather that in FreeBSD my dos partition (which is 1 gigabyte) is /dev/wd0s1 and so forth. I understand that FreeBSD uses the term "slice" as a Dos partition and "partition" as a FreeBSD partition on a slice. So, my Linux swap file would be /dev/wd0s2 and my Linux rooot partition would be /dev/wd0s3a through /dev/wd0s3f (or whatever). Okay, the problem I have is with all the partition letters. I think it makes things more confusing for new users. Users probably coming from a Windows world. Users probably wanting to try out FreeBSD for their business. Anyways, how about a WishList or something? Joey Garcia PS I've been wondering where FreeBSD is gonna go with USB, any answers? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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