Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 20:51:20 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson <cls@raggedclown.net> To: FreeBSD Questions <FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: adduser Message-ID: <20021229195120.GA883@raggedclown.net> In-Reply-To: <12925226463.20021229203158@dds.nl> References: <20021229185302.GA291@raggedclown.net> <12925226463.20021229203158@dds.nl>
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On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 08:31:58PM +0100, Alex wrote: > > Dear/Beste Cliff, > > Sunday, December 29, 2002, 7:53:02 PM, you wrote: > > > adduser is broken. > > Jeez, people wonder why FreeBSD is not more popular. > > FreeBSD is for a number of reasons not popular. One is that people > like you that produce negative PR without cause. > Negative PR ? I do my best to promote it. That does not mean being uncritical. I tried the simple act of adding a user to my system. It failed, repeatingly asking me for a user name I had already given. You should not have to have the brain of Einstein in order to put a new user on your system. People like me, users of what I consider to be a very superior operating system, that just lacks manners. As a matter of fact, immediately after sending that email I started on writing a decent mechanism for adding users. If that is negative PR then I am sorry. A job that should take a few minutes, didn't. When finished I will submit it through the normal channels. It is no good pretending that FreeBSD is a user-friendly system, it is not. As soon as people start paying attention to these fripperies, the sooner it will be realised that it is streets ahead of most other OS'es. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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