From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 30 13:04:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA15022 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 30 Nov 1998 13:04:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from server1.wallnet.com (server1.wallnet.com [208.225.162.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA15013 for ; Mon, 30 Nov 1998 13:04:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cweimann@server1.wallnet.com) Received: (from cweimann@localhost) by server1.wallnet.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) id QAA29084; Mon, 30 Nov 1998 16:04:38 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <19981130160437.A28557@wallnet.com> Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 16:04:37 -0500 From: "Christopher S. Weimann" To: Jason Nordwick , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Frustrated with bsd References: <007901be1c32$7dee8a00$e53c1c26@yasmeen.citycom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <007901be1c32$7dee8a00$e53c1c26@yasmeen.citycom.com>; from Jason Nordwick on Sun, Nov 29, 1998 at 11:09:12PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Nov 29, 1998 at 11:09:12PM -0800, Jason Nordwick wrote: > > >Christopher Weimann SysAdmin Wall Internet LLC. > > Hmm... a sysadmin... and you think that you are even qualified to > decide what is easy to install for the rest of us that don't spend > our life on administating a computer? Two years ago I had never touched a unix box of any flavor. I bought one box with BSDI preloaded and installed FreeBSD on the other myself by following the instructions on the web page. > Don't say stupid shit like "I don't know how to say this..." or > "obvious" until you really sit down and think... hmmm... What > would a person completely new to UNIX-style system and installing > OSes in general know. Arghh... > When I first installed FreeBSD I was completely new to Unix systems so I do have an idea what one might think. > I used to be a very strong FBSD prophet, but now after coming back > to it after six months, my initial install of -current went horribly; If you don't want problems don't run -current. Run the release or stable. Consider -current a beta maybe even alpha. If it doesn't work report it, don't bitch. > If anybody really wants the system to get into the mainstream (I actually > don't care if it does), But if you make a system even an idiot can use then only an idiot is going to want to use it. -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Christopher Weimann SysAdmin Wall Internet LLC. Email: cweimann@wallnet.com PO Box 255 Web: http://www.wallnet.com/~cweimann Manasquan NJ, 08736 732-223-1777 ------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message