Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 01:01:20 +1000 From: Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net> To: Bill Moran <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org, Bob Walker <rww@safllc.com> Subject: Re: Newbie Experience Message-ID: <20060912010120.1aeb2c28@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20060911053240.30d8117d.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> References: <000001c6d520$292f6700$0c01a8c0@DELL8400> <20060911053240.30d8117d.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com>
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On Mon, 11 Sep 2006 05:32:40 -0400
Bill Moran <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> wrote:
> We are a community. We're not Microsoft. We're not interested in
> driving users away by saying "here's everything you need, don't bother
> us again." Our limited resources are focused on developing the really
> important parts of the system. While few would complain if the
> install process were made easier, nobody has the time to work on it.
> Become part of the community and ask questions when you have trouble.
> Find a local user's group. But please, please don't complain about the
> OS not working right when you use it wrong. The FreeBSD community is
> an integral part of the OS. Not making use of the FreeBSD community
> and then complaining that the OS is difficult to use would be like not
> using a mouse then complaining that MS Windows is hard to use.
nicely put Bill :)
I would add, spend some time each day reading the mailing lists and help where
you can, and ask where you can't :)
in light of that... i've read about at least 1 project to improve on our
installer (SOC 2005) - is that already in place in Fbsd 6? (dont think
so...seems pretty similar to the old one to me...)
Any other related projects to improve the installer? I *KNOW* it isn't the most
important part of the system, but every bit counts, and I think that having
both a ncurses and a GUI (non-ncurses ;) )based installer would be quite nice
and modern. And I'd be definitely happy to help where I can. PC-BSD has one,
right?
anyway...just looking for pointers atm...
thanks everyone!
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