Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 16:04:37 -0500 From: "Christopher S. Weimann" <cweimann@wallnet.com> To: Jason Nordwick <nordwick@citycom.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Frustrated with bsd Message-ID: <19981130160437.A28557@wallnet.com> In-Reply-To: <007901be1c32$7dee8a00$e53c1c26@yasmeen.citycom.com>; from Jason Nordwick on Sun, Nov 29, 1998 at 11:09:12PM -0800 References: <007901be1c32$7dee8a00$e53c1c26@yasmeen.citycom.com>
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On Sun, Nov 29, 1998 at 11:09:12PM -0800, Jason Nordwick wrote: > > >Christopher Weimann SysAdmin Wall Internet LLC. > > Hmm... a sysadmin... and you think that you are even qualified to > decide what is easy to install for the rest of us that don't spend > our life on administating a computer? Two years ago I had never touched a unix box of any flavor. I bought one box with BSDI preloaded and installed FreeBSD on the other myself by following the instructions on the web page. > Don't say stupid shit like "I don't know how to say this..." or > "obvious" until you really sit down and think... hmmm... What > would a person completely new to UNIX-style system and installing > OSes in general know. Arghh... > When I first installed FreeBSD I was completely new to Unix systems so I do have an idea what one might think. > I used to be a very strong FBSD prophet, but now after coming back > to it after six months, my initial install of -current went horribly; If you don't want problems don't run -current. Run the release or stable. Consider -current a beta maybe even alpha. If it doesn't work report it, don't bitch. > If anybody really wants the system to get into the mainstream (I actually > don't care if it does), But if you make a system even an idiot can use then only an idiot is going to want to use it. -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Christopher Weimann SysAdmin Wall Internet LLC. Email: cweimann@wallnet.com PO Box 255 Web: http://www.wallnet.com/~cweimann Manasquan NJ, 08736 732-223-1777 ------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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