Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 09:19:16 -0700 From: Joe Rhett <jrhett@isite.net> To: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Items missing from the handbook and/or FAQs. Message-ID: <20040426161916.GB2726@isite.net> In-Reply-To: <408A97F8.3070207@daleco.biz> References: <20040423193700.GA5329@isite.net> <5EFD80D4-9567-11D8-90F9-003065ABFD92@mac.com> <20040424031522.GB9858@isite.net> <408A97F8.3070207@daleco.biz>
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On Sat, Apr 24, 2004 at 11:38:16AM -0500, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: > It certainly seems as if you brought a lot of pre-conceived ideas to > the desk, which may have been good in some other context, but > simply are not the same ideas that *BSD has its roots in. There are no pre-conceived ideas in my complaint other than a lack of documentation. Unless you mean a pre-conceived idea that someone should be able to figure out to how do something...? > The docs are a complete and highly distilled overview of the entire > OS; I don't think that it was intended as a simple "how to" type > affair. I'm not saying that you didn't read them, perhaps in near > entirety, but from this end it *sounds* as if you expected automagic > config wizards and eye-candy help menus from an OS that simply > has a different philosophy. I'm reading through my posts, and there simply isn't a single complaint about config wizards or eye candy, so I'm really not sure what you are refering to. I had 3 complaints about lack of coherent documentation, 1 complaint that inline documentation should be available (list of filesystem types) and 1 complaint that a modern x startup should be easier to set up. Back to what you said... > the desk, which may have been good in some other context, but > simply are not the same ideas that *BSD has its roots in. If the ideas that *BSD has its roots in are that the systems are supposed to require tons of undocumented, manual hacking to make them operational are what you are trying to say... sorry, I don't believe that. I've been using *BSD offspring since 1986. For many, many years the BSD variants were a LOT more functional out of the box than System III and System V systems. Are you honestly arguing that going backwards is helpful? -- Joe Rhett Chief Geek JRhett@Isite.Net Isite Services, Inc.
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