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~sigh~

seems like an awful lot of stuffing around for something that a 
user/developer should be able to access by default *in my opinion*. so 
far i have about 30% of functionality of my previous W2K system after 
several times the time required for setup. [as a workstation]

FreeBSD may be 'free' and more stable, but after i add my time to a 
setup it is over twice the price of XP Pro.

Something HAS to be done on the install front. I did select 'developer + 
X-windows' in the sysinstall and i think it would make more sense if the 
  account security was more 'open' for the average user given they would 
be 'developing' on the platform. i mean, half of my apps didnt work due 
to permissions being short. again, i did select that i wanted a 
'developer - x-windows' install.


peter lageotakes wrote:
> Please check out the FreeBSD FAQ:
> 
> 9.22. How do I let ordinary users mount floppies,
> CDROMs and other removable media?
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#USER-FLOPPYMOUNT
> 
> Pete
> 
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>I have been having a trouble getting various things
>>to work on my new 
>>5.1 workstation with gnome 2.x.
>>
>>tonight i was attemtping to get 'gtoaster' [cd
>>buring s/w] working as i 
>>couldnt see any drives, and when i tried adding them
>>i encountered a few 
>>errors muttering about permissions. so i logged on a
>>root and low and 
>>behold not only did i see all the CD drives, but i
>>could also browse my 
>>Network, something i have not been able to do.
>>
>>what should  do?
>>
>>migrate to using 'root' for my everyday login, or
>>somehow 'up' my 
>>ordinary account..?
>>
>>anyone have any suggestions on either idea and
>>perhaps if i should 
>>migrate how i could go about this...?
>>
>>please 'CC' me directly on replys...