Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 22:23:34 +0100 From: "James A Wilde" <james.wilde@telia.com> To: "Scott Parsons" <scott2@sympatico.ca>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: School Project Message-ID: <01d801bf6dc3$c4561790$8208a8c0@iqunlimited.net> References: <000801bf6d41$3c6de4c0$010ffea9@gandalf>
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The big downside is the HUGE threshold. With Windows you stick the CD in your machine and go and have coffee whilst everything is installed then come bck and start using it. With FreeBSD - or any UNIX including Linux - you have to know a lot before you can start doing anything. To be sure a lot of people have done a huge amount of work to make it easier, but it is still not point and click. A little example: the installation loads a copy of the online manual in html format. But it doesn't load a web browser. You have to work out that there is a text based browser - Lynx - available and work out how to install it and how to start it when you have installed it. And for all that you need to be able to read the manuals which are in html format for which you need a text based web browser... On the other hand you have an awful lot of control over your environment when you do get to know something about what you are doing - but then you don't want us to tell you the good points. :) mvh/regards James ----- Original Message ----- From: Scott Parsons <scott2@sympatico.ca> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Wednesday, February 2, 2000 06:49 Subject: School Project <snip> Could you please just make a few point form examples of the drawbacks? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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