From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 25 16:56:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.neta.com (nfs.neta.com [206.124.164.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 61C2B14BF8 for ; Mon, 25 Oct 1999 16:56:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from david@cql.com) Received: (qmail 29400 invoked from network); 25 Oct 1999 23:56:30 -0000 Received: from david.cql.com (HELO david) (208.194.82.231) by nfs.neta.com with SMTP; 25 Oct 1999 23:56:30 -0000 From: "David Kurtzberg" To: , Subject: RE: "easy installation"!!!!! yeah right Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 16:47:23 -0700 Message-ID: <000501bf1f43$491d7380$8b2ec898@david.cql.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-reply-to: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hmmm....freebsd is the first unix type of os I've ever used, and its much better then windows. I've gone more then an hour and a half without performing an illegal operation(and even if I did, it wouldn't bring the whole machine down.) My first freebsd install was actually...well...3 installs ;). Took a day, then a second day to make the x server actually start, but it's worth it. Oh, I read a nice book called Modern Operating Systems, by Andrew Tanenbaum, and the stuff it taught me is very helpful when running freebsd. By the way, I'm 16 years old, if I can understand it, so can you, just be patient(I horribly misspelled that) -Dave > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of > CKimmerl@SARCOM.COM > Sent: Monday, October 25, 1999 8:31 AM > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: "easy installation"!!!!! yeah right > > > You people are so far into this stuff that you don't know what > "easy" means > anymore. I tried to install FreeBSD 3.3 last night. It was the most > difficult install I've ever seen. Problems? How would I know- I > never knew > what it was doing. It installed, I just didn't know what. It is > so geared > towards unix experienced geeks that a person unfamiliar with Unix > is totally > lost. Microsoftcopy sucks but they've got no competition from > unix yet. No > one can understand it and unix people can't make it understandable. I > picked stuff from the menu, but the interface sucked so bad I wasn't sure > what I had installed. I was so pissed that I erased it. I chose FreeBSD > over Linux because it is supposed to be more stable, but only a > hacker geek > can install this OS. I'll try Linux, maybe it will be more easily > understood. Greg Lehay's book was useless- it was so far up in > geek land it > was amazing. Of course, what can you expect from a guy who speaks 3 > languages and went to school for chemistry, etc. He can't write beginner > books, that's for sure. Throughout the entire installation I found myself > wondering how anybody figures this shit out. I'd appreciate any > "PRACTICAL" > help as I do not want to give up on FreeBSD. > > Sincerely, > -ChadK > chadk@freewwweb.com > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message