Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 16:47:23 -0700 From: "David Kurtzberg" <david@cql.com> To: <CKimmerl@SARCOM.COM>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: "easy installation"!!!!! yeah right Message-ID: <000501bf1f43$491d7380$8b2ec898@david.cql.com> In-Reply-To: <A18002DDE56DD21184050008C7B1601401CADEF4@SNOHEX16.sarcom.com>
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hmmm....freebsd is the first unix type of os I've ever used, and its much better then windows. I've gone more then an hour and a half without performing an illegal operation(and even if I did, it wouldn't bring the whole machine down.) My first freebsd install was actually...well...3 installs ;). Took a day, then a second day to make the x server actually start, but it's worth it. Oh, I read a nice book called Modern Operating Systems, by Andrew Tanenbaum, and the stuff it taught me is very helpful when running freebsd. By the way, I'm 16 years old, if I can understand it, so can you, just be patient(I horribly misspelled that) -Dave > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of > CKimmerl@SARCOM.COM > Sent: Monday, October 25, 1999 8:31 AM > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: "easy installation"!!!!! yeah right > > > You people are so far into this stuff that you don't know what > "easy" means > anymore. I tried to install FreeBSD 3.3 last night. It was the most > difficult install I've ever seen. Problems? How would I know- I > never knew > what it was doing. It installed, I just didn't know what. It is > so geared > towards unix experienced geeks that a person unfamiliar with Unix > is totally > lost. Microsoftcopy sucks but they've got no competition from > unix yet. No > one can understand it and unix people can't make it understandable. I > picked stuff from the menu, but the interface sucked so bad I wasn't sure > what I had installed. I was so pissed that I erased it. I chose FreeBSD > over Linux because it is supposed to be more stable, but only a > hacker geek > can install this OS. I'll try Linux, maybe it will be more easily > understood. Greg Lehay's book was useless- it was so far up in > geek land it > was amazing. Of course, what can you expect from a guy who speaks 3 > languages and went to school for chemistry, etc. He can't write beginner > books, that's for sure. Throughout the entire installation I found myself > wondering how anybody figures this shit out. I'd appreciate any > "PRACTICAL" > help as I do not want to give up on FreeBSD. > > Sincerely, > -ChadK > chadk@freewwweb.com > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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