From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 3 20:49:39 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 443CC16A407 for ; Wed, 3 Jan 2007 20:49:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stapleton.41@gmail.com) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.190]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D00EA13C455 for ; Wed, 3 Jan 2007 20:49:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stapleton.41@gmail.com) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id x37so7275160nfc for ; Wed, 03 Jan 2007 12:49:37 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=lKTEpRYMktVDnrHWPqcBEhoVC5s4/IdVrWsI/E6n6UsfGPI1sfisDzUKQMxxuMJl9twBo84UQ4CtMXhPFN8AR2ZR3kyGugzKjCkNILUfqAmQE1o7ZkLPdm0klHkN9L/mLN4Wb2CCO8+cTG7Z/gNc6eRNMvYRvJ0xLTLsHsfRRPE= Received: by 10.82.135.13 with SMTP id i13mr1435817bud.1167857377600; Wed, 03 Jan 2007 12:49:37 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.82.151.15 with HTTP; Wed, 3 Jan 2007 12:49:37 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <80f4f2b20701031249m3ece05c9od2a190fb3687d2d6@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 15:49:37 -0500 From: "Jim Stapleton" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, swtpete@gmail.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Cc: Subject: RE: FreeBSD Installer vs RedHat Linux Fedora Core Installer? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2007 20:49:39 -0000 I have made a post like this before, so I can hardly criticise you for that, though my goal was more to try to consolidate a group to work on the issue. I'll say this, while the graphics aren't as pretty as those of many Linux distros, the FreeBSD installer is a lot more user friendly and workable in 6.x than it was in 5.2 (5.3?) when I had tried it previously. It may not be a pretty GUI, but it has the functionality and flexibility, in fact, a bit more than even the GUIs of those I'd say, and it's not user-unfriendly anymore. Additionally, it's worth the switch now, simply for the fact that although the learning curve is a touch higher when things work, it's a lot lower when fixing things that don't, add to that the fact that more of the listed "supported" stuff just works without the hassle you get on Linux, it's well worth the switch. -Jim Stapleton