From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Aug 5 14:24:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA26683 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 14:24:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from paprika.michvhf.com (paprika.michvhf.com [209.57.60.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA26678 for ; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 14:24:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vev@paprika.michvhf.com) Received: (qmail 5944 invoked by uid 1000); 5 Aug 1998 21:24:27 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <01BDC0AB.47DC9160.berend@pobox.com> Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1998 17:24:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Vince Vielhaber To: Berend de Boer Subject: RE: Install *actually* friendly Cc: "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 05-Aug-98 Berend de Boer wrote: > > Is FreeBSD for the poor user? I greatly doubt that. FreeBSD is for people > who have to do real work. So can effort some time to setup things. For a > game machine you have quite different requirements. Look to the future. The people that are buying PC's today are fairly green when it comes to computers. Schools are now teaching computer basics and beyond whereas 10 or 15 years ago the only thing many schools had to offer had to do with punchcards. As the current generation moves through these classes they're going to learn very quickly that crashes are not something that's normal for computers to do and either M$ will have to fix their OS's or more and more people will migrate to something else. FreeBSD is one very viable option, as is linux. I'm not talking about games, either. Office suites, videoconferencing, web and java are also important factors. The future is just around the corner, it's not something any of us want to lose sight of. > This is not to say that an easier install or shell could be developed for > FreeBSD, but that's quite different. I'm not saying develop something new, just polish up the internals of what we have now. Vince. -- ========================================================================== Vince Vielhaber -- KA8CSH email: vev@michvhf.com flame-mail: /dev/null # include TEAM-OS2 Online Searchable Campground Listings http://www.camping-usa.com "There is no outfit less entitled to lecture me about bloat than the federal government" -- Tony Snow ========================================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message