From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 3 10:34:06 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D30EA16A4A1 for ; Wed, 3 Oct 2007 10:34:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from remko@FreeBSD.org) Received: from galain.elvandar.org (redqueen.elvandar.org [217.148.169.55]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A02F613C467 for ; Wed, 3 Oct 2007 10:34:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from remko@FreeBSD.org) Received: from evilcoder.xs4all.nl ([195.64.94.120] helo=elvandar.local) by galain.elvandar.org with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1Id1YL-00002o-7Z; Wed, 03 Oct 2007 12:34:05 +0200 Message-ID: <47037058.5090908@FreeBSD.org> Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 12:35:04 +0200 From: Remko Lodder User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Macintosh/20070728) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Aryeh Friedman References: <4702EA52.9050904@delphij.net> <4702ECCB.3010508@webvolution.net> <4703218B.7000603@webvolution.net> <47036164.4040609@moneybookers.com> <470368AA.30108@moneybookers.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Stefan Lambrev Subject: Re: small purposal for change in installworld X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 10:34:07 -0000 Aryeh Friedman wrote: >> Sorry I really do not understand what is your point. For me the main >> difference between linux and freebsd is documentation. >> FreeBSD is very well documented project , as far as I know there is no >> such beast as well documented linux distro :) >> For me FreeBSD community was (and still is) very helpful and never with >> attitude RTFM. >> If you consider my mail with examples and steps how to accomplish all >> that you asked for as RTFM attitude I just do not know what to say. > > Sorry for being a little abrasive... my main point is we should aim > for more of a "point and click" style of doing things... apple and ms > have done it pretty well for the average case. > I disagree, one of the major powers of FreeBSD is that it's stable and fast by not using "point and click" facilities. Ofcourse there are projects that aim for this on the desktop like PC-BSD, we are not MS or Apple though, personally I would not feel comfortable moving to such a position (point and click). Cheers remko -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder ** remko@elvandar.org FreeBSD ** remko@FreeBSD.org /* Quis custodiet ipsos custodes */