Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 16:03:00 +0100 From: Marian Hettwer <MH@kernel32.de> To: supraexpress@globaleyes.net Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The case for FreeBSD Message-ID: <4208D4A4.6090304@kernel32.de> In-Reply-To: <20050208145219.491D143D39@mx1.FreeBSD.org> References: <20050208145219.491D143D39@mx1.FreeBSD.org>
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Hi there, supraexpress@globaleyes.net wrote: > WHY all of the moaning and groaning about "lack of exposure" for FreeBSD when > the Installer is one of the main reasons for this? I know of someone, a > "general user", who specifically gave up on FreeBSD because of the Installer, > and jumped over to one of the Linuxes which was "much easier to install". I > have had to help a couple of others through the Installer because they had > "gotten lost". This is NOT an excuse for excluding people from discovering or > using FreeBSD! > come on. Be a little bit more real. Even if we would have a fancy installer (please not as blown up as SuSE's or RedHat's), I bet that this Average User couldn't work with FreeBSD anyway. A lot of stuff needs to be configured by hand on FreeBSD. That's the way it works now. If Average Joe can't use sysinstall with www.freebsd.org/handbook/ at his hands, he won't be able to use FreeBSD anyway. Look at the Gentoo Folks, they have a growing userbase and still their way of installing is (IMO) harder without documentation than installing FreeBSD. However. Making sysinstall easier ( == fewer options) for newbies might be a good idea. If you don't have the handbook you _may_ get lost, due to the high amount of options to choose from. best regards, Marian -- It takes two to lie. One to lie and one to listen. -- Homer Simpson Colonel Homer
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