Many people's only familiarity with computers in general will be from a
Windows centric perspective. Somehow there is a tendency to believe that
inserting a CD, booting, and then proceeding to click OK in a dialog box a
few dozen times makes them some kind of expert when they successfully
On Thursday 06 August 2009 09:43:47 Mark Stapper wrote:
In light of this, I would really enjoy seeing a Ubuntu like movement
in the FreeBSD corner.
What I mean is that it would be nice for my mother to install and use
FreeBSD.
[snip]
To achieve this, there are two things that should be made
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 2:56 AM, Jonathan McKeownj.mcke...@ru.ac.za wrote:
On Thursday 06 August 2009 09:43:47 Mark Stapper wrote:
In light of this, I would really enjoy seeing a Ubuntu like movement
in the FreeBSD corner.
What I mean is that it would be nice for my mother to install and use
In light of this, I would really enjoy seeing a Ubuntu like movement
in the FreeBSD corner.
What I mean is that it would be nice for my mother to install and use
FreeBSD.
I am not saying that a Windows user should be able to feel right at home
on a box running FreeBSD, but a computer user
[snip]
In light of this, I would really enjoy seeing a Ubuntu like movement
in the FreeBSD corner.
What I mean is that it would be nice for my mother to install and use
FreeBSD.
I am not saying that a Windows user should be able to feel right at home
on a box running FreeBSD, but a computer
On Thu, 6 Aug 2009 09:56:59 +0200, Jonathan McKeown j.mcke...@ru.ac.za wrote:
PC-BSD is FreeBSD, pre-packaged with a usable desktop and its own simplified
package manager.
If you're talking about PBI, that's what the average user expects:
You open a web browser (d'oh), search for what you
Polytropon wrote:
On Mon, 03 Aug 2009 10:58:58 -0400, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote:
Could somone explain to me why an upgrade from sysinstall would
overwrite partitions; especially when the instructions indicate that
files will not be overwritten?
I'm not sure how to explain.
On Wednesday 05 August 2009 15:49:38 PJ wrote:
Polytropon wrote:
On Mon, 03 Aug 2009 10:58:58 -0400, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote:
Could somone explain to me why an upgrade from sysinstall would
overwrite partitions; especially when the instructions indicate that
files will not be
Jonathan,
I'd like to thank you for your polite words. I'm not sure I could
have been able to express in the same way. Allow me a few comments:
On Wed, 5 Aug 2009 16:51:53 +0200, Jonathan McKeown j.mcke...@ru.ac.za wrote:
On Wednesday 05 August 2009 15:49:38 PJ wrote:
Well, whatever it was it
Polytropon wrote:
[snip]
Personally, I do think it's a pity, because FreeBSD (in my experience,
since FreeBSD 4.5) is stable, easy to use (once you have the basic Unix
concepts on board), and astonishingly well-documented. It's also
supported by one of the friendliest and most knowledgeable
PJ wrote:
Could somone explain to me why an upgrade from sysinstall would
overwrite partitions; especially when the instructions indicate that
files will not be overwritten?
Dear Phil,
Ofcourse if you upgrade, files will be overwritten. Could you please be
more specific?
Greetz,
Mark
Could somone explain to me why an upgrade from sysinstall would
overwrite partitions; especially when the instructions indicate that
files will not be overwritten?
--
Hervé Kempf: Pour sauver la planète, sortez du capitalisme.
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Phil
On Mon, 03 Aug 2009 10:58:58 -0400, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote:
Could somone explain to me why an upgrade from sysinstall would
overwrite partitions; especially when the instructions indicate that
files will not be overwritten?
I'm not sure how to explain. It's possible that sysinstall
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