From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 26 8:46:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from alpha.vaxxine.com (alpha.vaxxine.com [209.5.212.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDC3637B41B for ; Tue, 26 Feb 2002 08:46:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from there (ppp132.digi-t3.st-cath.niagara.net [209.5.215.132]) by alpha.vaxxine.com (8.9.2/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA01711 for ; Tue, 26 Feb 2002 11:46:20 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200202261646.LAA01711@alpha.vaxxine.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: "Paul C. Boyle" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: 4.5 ISO Not consitant. I must press the issue. Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 11:46:52 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I admit I am a newbie using FreeBSD. But I enjoy the community very much. I was using the 4.4 install of FreeBSD for a while, I had a few buggy things with it like the cdplayer in KDE did not work. Not a big deal really but I thought practice installing from scratch is good experience. I got a friend to download and burn the 4.5 iso's for me since I only have a 33.6 dial up. My problem starts with no KDE internet utilities for dialup on the disks. I want to install and get up and running quickly not have to find and learn an new dialup tool. Man was I pissed. All of the other KDE packages were not on the cd's as well. This looks very bad for FreeBSD. There is no consistency from one distribution to the next. All the marketers in the world know that consistency is more important to brand loyalty than quality. Just look at MacDonald's. They are consistant. Consistantly bad but consistant. And this is why they are still here today. People know that they can go into any MD's and get the same thing they got in another state or another country. That is why they go back. It is not for the quality. Oh BTW the same goes for Microsoft. Consistentcy not quality. Just imagine if the guy at FreeBSD got hold of this little concept of consistency. We have the quality. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message