Date: Sat, 13 Nov 1999 07:23:08 -0500 From: Matthew Schroebel <matt@epooch.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newbies vanishing Message-ID: <19991113072308.A23008@beagle.epooch.com>
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I'm a newbie ... I first tried FreeBSD 2 years ago with version 2.2.5 and it was difficult to configure and get up and running. Now I'm running either 3.1 or 3.2 and I'd say the installation is *much* easier now. Some due to my little experience with 2.2.5, some because of the FAQ, but I'd venture to guess that PCI hardware solves much of the trouble with IRQ conflicts and choosing the correct device driver. Nowadays, one can really just insert the CD, reboot, do a novice install and make sure to bring up the ethernet interface, and without re-building the kernel, you have a FreeBSD machine up and running. I still have difficulty in setting up stuff like Apache with php3 and mysql, sometimes I feel like I'm playing Myst, not knowing what to do next. If make works fine, then it's clean, but when there is trouble in the tarballs, whew, it's into the cave without a flashlight. I have the Windows 2000 beta and toyed with with idea of using Windows 2000 Server with its IIS, but chose not to because I feel FreeBSD is more robust and since I don't know Windows NT setup, I'd be just as much a newbie with it, so I wouldn't be gaining anything (and most likely losing security). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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