Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 12:59:21 -0500 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: "Paul C. Boyle" <paulcb_mcse@yahoo.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.5 ISO Not consitant. I must press the issue. Message-ID: <02022612592103.00300@proxy.pt.com> In-Reply-To: <200202261646.LAA01711@alpha.vaxxine.com> References: <200202261646.LAA01711@alpha.vaxxine.com>
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On Tuesday 26 February 2002 11:46, Paul C. Boyle wrote: > 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. No it doesn't. A very small percentage of people are going to be as confused and upset as you are, and they are not the target audience for FreeBSD. FreeBSD is targeted mainly at sysadmins and computer geeks, not so much at the average computer user. While it would be better targeted at average users, when it comes time to decide what goes on CD#1, I'm guessing that stuff to make life easy for the average user is going to get bumped off in favor of things that the taget audience (sysadmins) need. Notice that the iso image for CD#1 fills an entire CD, it's packed as full as it gets. However, you could also order a DVD of FreeBSD that has everything you could ever want on it. > There is no consistency from > one distribution to the next. Yes there is. The system is more consistent from the 3.X line to the 4.x line than Windows is from NT 4 to W2K. > 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. Interesting assumption. I go to MDs only because it's quick and on the way, the only time I get upset is when they take a long time. You're right, at least, in that I don't care about the quality of MDs food. > Oh BTW the same goes for Microsoft. No it doesn't. Look at the network configuration for Win NT and the network config for W2K, they're completely _inconsistent_. However, I didn't have to retrain anyone to use the ifconfig command because they were used to using FreeBSD 3.x. > Consistentcy not quality. I'm familiar with that theory and it's success, but I think you're trying to apply it to the wrong thing. > Just imagine if the guy at FreeBSD got hold of this little concept of > consistency. It does, to the degree that it can. > We have the quality. And we have consistency in the quality, and the interface. You know, if you think there's such a large market for FreeBSD CDs targeted at the average user, there's nothing stopping you from cutting your own release. -- Bill Moran Potential Technology technical services http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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