Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 19:16:02 +0100 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> To: Dan Langille <dan@langille.org> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The beastie boot menu. Message-ID: <1101752162.41ab6762ab0b2@imp4-q.free.fr> In-Reply-To: <41AB14CF.28995.7F450DD1@localhost> References: <20041129024602.GA23324@turingmachine.mentalsiege.net> <41AB14CF.28995.7F450DD1@localhost>
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Quoting Dan Langille <dan@langille.org>: > On 29 Nov 2004 at 18:14, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > > > More evidence that FreeBSD is losing all touch with regular users. > > Yes. Exactly... huh? Oh yeah, we're missing a ;) above. No, no smiley. But I agree I can't speak for all regular users. I'm speaking for myself, and at various times others have said the same for themselves. I used to like FreeBSD -- the system and the community. I'm no longer comfortable with either. The change began, for me, when Matt Dillon was chucked out: it seemed odd then but it now seems just another example of how new thinking is simply not tolerated. My own capacity for contributing is very limited, but some time back I made a posting offering to try upgrade the system's man command to the most recent GNU version (which offers the nice feature that you can read a manpage foo.1 in your current directory with "man ./foo.1" without installing it). As I expected, I received not a single constructive comment, but several comments on why it was not necessary because you can use a groff command to read a manpage page instead. In fact there were three mails making corrections to the exact groff command required, but the irony of expecting regular users to know all this seemed lost on the posters. That kind of thinking pervades FreeBSD. The removal of the login menu is just the latest example. I now use Dragonfly for self-education and Linux for something that works with my hardware. Rahul
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