From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 11 13:14:26 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9917B16A4CE for ; Tue, 11 May 2004 13:14:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.nildram.co.uk (smtp.nildram.co.uk [195.112.4.54]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC38143D4C for ; Tue, 11 May 2004 13:14:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from arden@nildram.co.uk) Received: from 10.0.0.3 (81-6-248-200.dyn.gotadsl.co.uk [81.6.248.200]) by smtp.nildram.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 646DD2622F9; Tue, 11 May 2004 21:14:21 +0100 (BST) From: arden To: wendy In-Reply-To: <000501c43770$082b8070$6700a8c0@aopen> References: <000501c43770$082b8070$6700a8c0@aopen> Content-Type: text/plain; charset= Message-Id: <1084306414.2459.7.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.4-8mdk Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 21:13:34 +0100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 20:14:26 -0000 On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 16:52, wendy wrote: > Easy to install > FreeBSD can be installed from a variety of media including CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, > floppy disk, magnetic tape, an MS-DOS® partition, or if you have a network > connection, you can install it directly over anonymous FTP or NFS. All you > need is a couple of formatted 1.44MB floppies and these directions. > > > > THIS IS NOT TRUE! - the installation actually is very difficult and so this > "Superior" OS is not for 99.9% computer users - I'll probably kill my time > only if I lost my job and stay home having nothing to do to configure how to > install it. > > Comparing to Windows, this BSD is very dumb- want to me to tell it > everything. No wonder it's Free. I have to disagree ive installed it today for the first time on test machine and apart from having slight problems with sound driver (which m$ windoze did not auto configure either) didn't have much trouble looks to be pretty solid have to say boot up and shutdown seem alot quicker than linux arden > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >