From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jan 23 12:38:35 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from HAL9000.wox.org (12-232-222-90.client.attbi.com [12.232.222.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80D2E37B400 for ; Wed, 23 Jan 2002 12:38:32 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dschultz@localhost) by HAL9000.wox.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) id g0NKePa61076; Wed, 23 Jan 2002 12:40:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dschultz) Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 12:40:25 -0800 From: David Schultz To: "f.johan.beisser" Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AOL in Negotiations to Buy Red Hat Message-ID: <20020123124025.A60889@HAL9000.wox.org> Mail-Followup-To: "f.johan.beisser" , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org References: <20020123114658.A514@lpt.ens.fr> <20020123091107.T32624-100000@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020123091107.T32624-100000@localhost>; from jan@caustic.org on Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 09:12:48AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Thus spake f.johan.beisser : > of course, the only BSD i've found to be particulary user-unfriendly is > netbsd. and that, it seems, is a problem with disk partitioning during the > install. something that probably could be fixed fairly easily given > motivation by the NetBSD team. I think FreeBSD's installer could be better, too, but it works in a fairly straightforward manner as long as you don't have strange hardware. Debian's installer was fairly helpful, up until a point. I refer specifically to the point where it printed an arithmetic overflow error message and proceeded to overwrite my hard disk with junk, apparently beginning with the MBR. As for the correctness of the operating system itself, I can't comment. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message