From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Jun 12 10:48:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from odin.acuson.com (odin.acuson.com [157.226.230.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C44D37B412 for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 10:48:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from djohnson@acuson.com) Received: from acuson.com ([157.226.46.72]) by odin.acuson.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.54) with ESMTP id AAA4141; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 10:53:56 -0700 Message-ID: <3B2655C4.BA9BDFF6@acuson.com> Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 10:47:48 -0700 From: David Johnson Organization: Acuson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: joel2a@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installation doesn't work right with X and Netscape References: <4.2.2.20010612014317.00cc33a0@pop.mail.yahoo.com> <4.2.2.20010612031723.02a65590@pop.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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