From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 7 12:40:04 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 696E916A4CE for ; Sun, 7 Mar 2004 12:40:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from web12823.mail.yahoo.com (web12823.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.174.204]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4493E43D1D for ; Sun, 7 Mar 2004 12:40:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ltrimin@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20040307204004.92289.qmail@web12823.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [67.60.10.72] by web12823.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sun, 07 Mar 2004 14:40:04 CST Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2004 14:40:04 -0600 (CST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Luis=20Trimi=F1o?= To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: New user install experience X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2004 20:40:04 -0000 Hello my name is Luis, I read your email about new users install experience, here is mine: I'm using FreeBSD 4.9 and so far has been the less painful experience installing a system so far even compare to windows(install, reboot, oh I detect that you have some new hardware, do you have this or that? bla bla bla then reboot againg and so far, I recently install a win 98se for a friend and I wasted a couple of hours in the process), OK the graphic interface sucks and you have to make some serious reading to get the system working the way you want but it's a good way to lear! at the end of the installation you usually get a system that is almost ready to go. I look around an once I tried Gentoo Linux, what a waste of time! it was imposible, for me at least, to get the X86 working, configuring the Kernel was overwellming and later when I finally tought that every thing was ready to go the stuped thing ( maybe I, the user was the stuped?) did not work. Hope this information help, I will stay with FreeBSD from now on, I don't know about other Linux flavors, besides Gentoo a friend once tried Mandrake or Red Hat and he spend several days trying to set it up so I don't even want to tried. Another one just give it up with Linux at all. Luis F Trimino _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Información de Estados Unidos y América Latina, en Yahoo! Noticias. Visítanos en http://noticias.espanol.yahoo.com