From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jun 24 10:59:53 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA27789 for chat-outgoing; Tue, 24 Jun 1997 10:59:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from federation.addy.com (federation.addy.com [207.239.68.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA27782 for ; Tue, 24 Jun 1997 10:59:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from slip129-37-112-131.pa.us.ibm.net (slip129-37-112-131.pa.us.ibm.net [129.37.112.131]) by federation.addy.com (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id NAA25331; Tue, 24 Jun 1997 13:59:23 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199706241759.NAA25331@federation.addy.com> From: "Francisco Reyes" To: "David Nugent" Cc: "chat@freebsd.org" Date: Tue, 24 Jun 97 14:10:06 Reply-To: "Francisco Reyes" Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Francisco Reyes's Registered PMMail 1.9 For OS/2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: OS/2 users going to FreeBSD? :-) Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 24 Jun 1997 01:15:22 +1000, David Nugent wrote: >I guess half the problem is that this enhanced >functionality tends to scare the non-technical user off! The other good thing about OS/2 is that setting up dialup to the internet is painless. It took me weeks to get FreeBSD connected to the internet and even then with LOTS of help. My first internnet experience was with OS/2 and I got everything running in minutes not weeks. I think Unix/FreeBSD won't get more acceptance at the desktop until there is more emphasis placed on usability. For instance setting up dialup PPP should not require people to understand so many things. If I knew more I would write a darn perl script (I just copied some files people gave me to get my ppp going). I do admit that once I had a different provider and it was much easier, but my current provider, IBM Net, uses chap/pap(?).