Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 10:47:48 -0700 From: David Johnson <djohnson@acuson.com> To: joel2a@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installation doesn't work right with X and Netscape Message-ID: <3B2655C4.BA9BDFF6@acuson.com> References: <4.2.2.20010612014317.00cc33a0@pop.mail.yahoo.com> <4.2.2.20010612031723.02a65590@pop.mail.yahoo.com>
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joel2a@yahoo.com wrote: > But the INSTALLATION PROGRAM just needs A LOT more work done to it, since > it looks and operates like something out of the 1980's ASCII DOS programs. So what? I like the programs I use to be pretty. But I also want them to be functional. Getting both would be nice, but given a choice between the two, I would much rather have the functional. Of all the OS installers I have ever used, and I've used quite a few of them, only three in twenty years have never worked. One of those was SuSE's GUI installer. It did not like the video card, and the official word from their support department was to use the text installer instead. Of course the FreeBSD installer is not perfect. No installer is. But switching operating systems just because one or two screens in the installer don't have back-buttons is petty. Switching because Netscape doesn't work I can understand. Switching because of the aesthetics of an installer is nutty. David (ps. those other two failed installs included Corel 1.0 and OS/2 4.0, and only on specific machines). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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