Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2001 06:44:38 -0700 From: sabine225@home.com To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CVSup is overkill for me Message-ID: <726E8392-BFE0-11D5-9C64-0050E4050F42@home.com> In-Reply-To: <20011013.7475600@localhost.>
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On Saturday, October 13, 2001, at 12:47 AM, Salvo Bartolotta wrote: > Sabine, Thanks for all the comforting words. My name is Sam, my wife's mail account (sabine225@home.com) is the only one I have that the reverse lookup works correctly (required by the freeBSD mailserver). > When I used Unix for the first time, I met with a number of similar > difficulties (of the kind: "Ah! That's overwhelming!"). I've been using Linux/freeBSD for 3 years. I can format drives on remote machines, write perl scripts that traverse infinitely deep directories changing html code on files needing the specified changes from a web interface, write shell scripts that synchronize servers across the net, etc. blah...blah. It's just the documentation for cvsup, heck all UNIX stuff, is always written by the wrong guy, the guy who's so close to the project he can no longer think of what it looks like to someone just getting started. That's OK, it's free and with the excellent support form this list I couldn't be happier. I just get a little crazy sometimes. I'm sure you've done it too, the documentation seems like a circle of lies at times. > If one wants to learn a few idiom phrases (Windows), a GUI (as is > Windows) is OK. If one wants to speak a language, ie to have much > greater control of what one does, one needs to be able to *say* what > one > is doing. Windows, as are all Microsoft products, are strictly forbidden in our company. We have all Mac workstations (some now on OS X) and all freeBSD servers. Windows administrative GUI and documentation are purposely poorly written to increase "instances" of paid product support to Microsoft. There are flaws in capitalism. We zealously support UNIX and GNU software as support to the computing community; it's the only way to keep Microsoft from making our lives completely intolerable. I become even crazier when I try to configure a Microsoft product. > P.S. Unix is way too complicated. :-)) Not if Steve Jobs gets his way. Sorry for the wasted bandwidth, I'll be OK in a day or two, actually because of this list and the replies to my post I feel better already. Thanks again, sam To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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