Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 21:48:40 +0200 From: Gabriel Ambuehl <gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch> To: Thomas Good <tomg@mailhost.nrnet.org> Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re[4]: Some food for thought...(aka rant of the day) Message-ID: <187104076694.20000531214840@buz.ch> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1000531110020.19010A-100000@mailhost.nrnet.org> References: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1000531110020.19010A-100000@mailhost.nrnet.org>
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>> FreeBSD OTOH lacks such a thing as YaST forcing the user to learn the >> system but afterwards he at least understands what his system's doing. > Did YAST *force* you to use it, Gabriel? ;-) Argh. But I think you guys know what I mean. > BTW, I guess you didn't feel as coerced by sysinstall on FBSD? That one's atleast documented and marks the changes it makes to rc.conf. It's not as featurerich as YaST but does it's job quite well. A frontend to ipfw would have helped me at the beginning but now I prefer to mess around with it directly. > The 'official' docs are the worst. After market stuff (i.e., Tim > O'Reilly) is the best. Actually, I'd rather spend my time lobbying > O'Reilly to write about FBSD than argue Linux v. FBSD which I view > as silly. I am eager to acquire a small tome like 'FBSD in a nutshell.' > I don't want to read reams of paper --- a brief book like the nutshell > series is good. <AOL> plz add me too </AOL> Make it so, O'Reilly! Books are still a lot more comfortable to read than online docs. > And I really don't need something that tells me how to use sysinstall. ;-) True enough. The whole topic of installation could be left out, IMHO. That one is covered quite good in Greg's book... > to when he talks about 'dumbing down an OS' (this month's Linux Journal) > so as to pander to people who really don't want unix to begin with. ACK. Best regards, Gabriel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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