Sorry about that (not really), but Mac Mail places the reply at the
top. Maybe I should use a Leet mail prog like yourself.
On Oct 12, 2004, at 6:08 PM, Jerry McAllister wrote:
Geez, another top poster who mangles the flow of the thread!!
////jerry
Personally, I think the FreeBSD install is incredibly simple. It
really
could not be easier, but if you want one that is, try DragonFlyBSD.
The
install of that is very, very simple, but you may run into issues with
certain software packages.
Jamie
On Oct 12, 2004, at 5:45 PM, Jerry McAllister wrote:
Dear Friends : I'm a Linux user since 1,999 and I'm really
interested
in
start FreeBSD. OK, it's a new system, different versions and so on.
My
experience with computers started with Basic, after MS-DOS, Windows
and
Linux. When I tried Linux, 5 years-ago, partitions, kde, window
maker
and many of them, were only words. My first fear, was erase my HD. I
did
it many times, but I knew how to start again or recover. I'm writing
these things, cause in these years using Linux, I saw a big
evolution
,
specially the installer. Mandrake, Red Hat, Fedora, Slackware and
another, made a goob job and you can do it , almost without
problems.
But, when I tried FreeBSD installer, I remembered Debian, the worst
installer ! Probably another distributions, like Knoppix, Kurumin ,
Gnoppix to name a few, trying to make the life user easiest ! My
first
experience with FreeBSD, was 5.0, with a PC Master, brazilian
magazine.
After many tries, a XFree86 error, when I typed startx, disappointed
me
again and, I forgot it... On the last month, I downloaded the 2 CDs,
5.2.1, and, the same installer, errors, infinite loops... very
disappointing ! I tried many lists, and with some support,to resolve
or
not, the problems. Again, I format my system and, here I am, with
Windows (mainly for games and a problematic usb scanner) and Linux.
I
need a more stable system. Many people talked me very good about
FreeBSD. For me, until now , the biggest deception ! Please, I don't
know the FreeBSD objectives, but if you would like that more and
more
people can use it, CHANGE this installer. Confuse , in one word !
Disappointing ! I tried standard, express, custom , all packages,
minimum, all kind of ways... I can't understand a looped install.
Almost
2 hours after, an error... My video card is recognized , but when
you
did post-install, not ! You tried many XFrre86 configs and not....
When
something happens and finally you can start KDE or GNOME or another,
DHCP don't run and so on. Please change this installer and trying to
better hardware and network configuration ! Until this, I'll never
tried
FreeBSD again ! Sincerely, Newton - Curitiba - Brazil
The nice thing about the installer is that it works.
Too bad you will be cutting yourself off from a good system
because you will not take the time to learn it.
You miss so much in life.
////jerry
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