From owner-freebsd-current Tue Oct 6 15:01:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA07313 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 15:01:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bright.fx.genx.net (bright.fx.genx.net [206.64.4.154]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA07080 for ; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 15:00:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@hotjobs.com) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by bright.fx.genx.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id SAA05539; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 18:01:47 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bright@hotjobs.com) X-Authentication-Warning: bright.fx.genx.net: bright owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 18:01:47 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein X-Sender: bright@bright.fx.genx.net To: Alex cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Graphical Desktop for FreeBSD. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Not necessarily. People stick with linux because they like it. And > > hey, We cant run Winnukes or those evil teardrop attacks > > "out-of-the-box", so were no good, > > Right? :) > > No. RedHat, the apotime of easy to use Unicies, really does attract quite > a few clueless Windows users who think they are all that because they know > how to install RedHat (read: follow a few simple instructions). While, I > think an easier to use config is a good thing, and I'd like to see the > majority of desktops running a Unixish OS, I think that FreeBSD is > definately not an OS to market to the Unix newbie. FreeBSD is VERY intuative, the ports collection, cvsup'ing your machine are things that make freebsd very attractive to newbies as well as experianced users. i find it quite a nightmare to change settings on any other flavor of Unix without the vendor's GUI admintool because the obfuscated messy filesystem structure of the config files. thanks to Jordan for his sysinstall utility, smart snappy and useful. and it can't get much better than /etc/rc.conf which is really cool and makes changing boot options an easy thing to do. Alfred Perlstein - Programmer, HotJobs Inc. - www.hotjobs.com -- There are operating systems, and then there's FreeBSD. -- http://www.freebsd.org/ 3.0-current To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message