Date: Sun, 11 May 2014 19:41:45 +1000 From: Jason Birch <jbirch@jbirch.net> To: Jack Richard <jackrichard43@gmail.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD on disc Message-ID: <CAA=KUhtii5Uh2tmt0LtBzjogCZ3tK61f0GmhXbK3MW67CkYfUQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAL5swbVPxrFt_KNe%2Bsf93Vo-QTsnZ3SfqjFr2wysha53ux%2BJGA@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAL5swbVPxrFt_KNe%2Bsf93Vo-QTsnZ3SfqjFr2wysha53ux%2BJGA@mail.gmail.com>
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> > I have attempted to install FreeBSD in Toshiba amd64 8GB/640GB-hdd. All > I get is BS. If you mean BS as in "bullshit", this doesn't really give us much information to help you with. Could you elaborate on what you expected to get, and what you actually got? > ... but the requirements to get FreeBSD to work after downloading, burning > the iso to disc and hours of installation without being able to use it... I suspect we'll need to know about your use-case to really understand how we might help. For example, for one of my use-cases of FreeBSD, installation takes minutes and I personally don't need a graphical user interface, or even networking. ... if FreeBSD cannot work in every fashion OUT-OF-THE-BOX ... I wouldn't really say FreeBSD is designed to work in every fashion out-of-the-box. I don't think there are many (any?) things in life that will work for every use-case. As an analogy, a particular car might not seat 7 people, and that might make it a no-go for you and your family. But that might not affect my choice to purchase that car, and in fact might be a good thing! While a great deal of things will work out-of-the-box, they may not be enabled out of the box. Something like PC-BSD is FreeBSD with a great many more things enabled out-of-the-box, and may meet your expectations more. As Odhiambo hinted at rather crudely, perhaps there's a mismatch between your expectation of what an operating system should do and FreeBSD's philosophy. PC-BSD will go a long way to bridging that expectation gap.
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