Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 10:40:44 +0300 From: Radu-Cristian FOTESCU <rfotescu@idsrom.com> To: 'John Armstrong' <siberian@siberian.org> Cc: "'freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: What to tell to Linux-centric people?! Message-ID: <C1F3617BDC52D21185E40000214C247C154053@id-bucharest.idsrom.com>
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> I agree. color ls is totally lame and I think you can get it running > on freebsd but..why? I guess I must be the old one, not the OS... To > each their own, but in my opinion a new install should never default > to 'bells and whistles' mode as it assumes to much on the part of the > end user hardware configs. It in _NOT_ a "too much assumption on end user hardware configs" to assume it has a color-able terminal, in order to see "ls-color" running! And... it's too bad FreeBSD community is _that_ conservative and doesn't make a 5-minute change in installation's _DEFAULTS_ that could attract 50% of Linux community to FreeBSD! I saw that stupid "ls-NONcolour" default on RedHat3.0.3 [I was coming from Slackware 3.0 at the time] and I fixed it in 3 minutes, but I'm still wondering: why should 90% of users being _forced_ to do this? Or... are you assuming that a Hercules card is the most usual today? Or an antique VT unable to display colour? I am too a little "old" in thoughts, so I NEVER USE MIDNIGHT COMMANDER! Should we also suppose that the fact the user MAY want to install X is a "too much assumption"? So, whay don't we take out this from the installation procedure, and force the user to search for himself/herself for that? Regards, Radu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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