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
