From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 7 05:47:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id FAA26200 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 7 Jan 1998 05:47:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from itesec.hsc.fr (root@itesec.hsc.fr [192.70.106.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id FAA26181 for ; Wed, 7 Jan 1998 05:47:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pb@hsc.fr) Received: from mars.hsc.fr (pb@mars.hsc.fr [192.70.106.44]) by itesec.hsc.fr (8.8.8/8.8.5/itesec-1.10-nospam) with ESMTP id OAA20698; Wed, 7 Jan 1998 14:46:12 +0100 (MET) Received: (from pb@localhost) by mars.hsc.fr (8.8.5/8.8.5/pb-19970301) id OAA26788; Wed, 7 Jan 1998 14:46:11 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <19980107144611.QR04531@mars.hsc.fr> Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 14:46:11 +0100 From: Pierre.Beyssac@hsc.fr (Pierre Beyssac) To: khansen@njcc.com Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard), capriotti@geocities.com (Capriotti), hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X based Free installation References: <724.884107725@time.cdrom.com> <34B2776D.7E87@njcc.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.59.1e Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <34B2776D.7E87@njcc.com>; from Ken Hansen on Jan 6, 1998 13:26:53 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk According to Ken Hansen: > The current instal diskette is easliy as good as the install > tools provided in comercial linux (Red Hat and Caldera) distributions, IMHO, FreeBSD install is as good as any other for the novice user, and probably better for the expert user. I saw a Caldera install once... Extremely nice and flashy when you can choose the package list under X11. But it *really* sucks (or at least, it sucked when I saw it) when it comes to reporting disk I/O errors, for instance: it just stuck there without any message, just as if it was extracting the packages. After one hour or so you're still waiting for it without any idea what is going on. It obviously makes problem solving that much harder. One real problem with GUI stuff of all kinds is that it's too often designed without any error checking in mind. Especially when it's just an install program that you use only once... -- Pierre.Beyssac@hsc.fr