Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 18:41:08 +0100 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@mobil.cz> To: freebsd-newbie <freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Aarghh !! Message-ID: <20020210174108.GV19456@roman.mobil.cz> In-Reply-To: <OE42OcQUKoHXV91Wpqg00005ec9@hotmail.com> References: <OE42OcQUKoHXV91Wpqg00005ec9@hotmail.com>
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> From: "Shawn Halloran" <SPHalloran2@hotmail.com>
> To: "freebsd-newbie" <freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org>
> Subject: Aarghh !!
> Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 02:53:10 -0800
break your lines at ~72 characters, please.
> I guess, since I can't ask questions hear (pun), I can simply state
> that I am beginning to feel extreme discouragement.
I think that you message perfectly fits this list.
Unices are (or tend to be) quite humiliating (at first) for people
who are accustomed to "click yes", like I was.
The fact is that other operating systems might not work that well in
terms of speed or reliability, but when they do work, they work
without requiring you to know much about them.
How you view this varies with your mileage.
That said, all that it takes to have a working FreeBSD install is a
bit of hacker trait: desire to know how things work. Beyond that,
it's just a matter of time.
> I keep hearing how wonderful this system is, but the most Ive been
> abel to do is generate a list of the /usr directory.
other directories refuse ls? (just joking :)
> My mouse won't configure, X won't configure, Heck! I can't even figure
> out how to load a simple word processor. Uuumph!
Would you mind reposting the *message id's* (not the whole emails)
here, so I (or someone else) can look them up?
> I've spent hours reading. I've spent hours on the net. I've loaded
> this OS several times (which has been a learning experinece - I can
> now create partitions in my slice). So far, the best I can achieve is
> a barren screen similar to the ominous cursor that greeted my when I
> first loaded DOS 5.0.
> I certainly hope that all this effort is going to be fruitful -
I hope so, too.
> I can think of several people that would tell me I'm absolutely insane
> for trying to learn this OS.
I can think of at least one person who thinks I'm absolutely insane
for using this OS successfully day to day.
One more thing: I started using FreeBSD last summer. I had had very
small experience with linux, but that didn't go much further than
ls(1). I use FreeBSD happily both at work, and at home (and no, I
don't dual-boot, either). So it *is* possible.
--
FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE
6:10PM up 21 days, 34 mins, 16 users, load averages: 0.02, 0.03, 0.01
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