Not an easy install

2006-03-25 Thread Tim
Why couldn't you guys make a install easy instead of this and that, ok I am a newbie and it should be easy, I have installed Ubuntu, it was like a dream, smooth as silk, Fedora pretty much the same FreeBSD, its a nitemare if you have never done it, I am now reloading windows and then putting ba

Re: Not an easy install

2006-03-25 Thread beni . brinckman
>Why couldn't you guys make a install easy instead of this and that, ok I >am a newbie and it should be easy, I have installed Ubuntu, it was like >a dream, smooth as silk, Fedora pretty much the same FreeBSD, its a >nitemare if you have never done it, I am now reloading windows and then >putting b

Re: Not an easy install

2006-03-25 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Tim wrote: Why couldn't you guys make a install easy instead of this and that, ok I am a newbie and it should be easy, I have installed Ubuntu, it was like a dream, smooth as silk, Fedora pretty much the same FreeBSD, its a nitemare if you have never done it, I am now reloading windows and then

Re: Not an easy install

2006-03-25 Thread Kevin Kinsey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why couldn't you guys make a install easy instead of this and that, ok I am a newbie and it should be easy, I have installed Ubuntu, it was like a dream, smooth as silk, Fedora pretty much the same FreeBSD, its a nitemare if you have never done it, I am now reloading win

Re: Not an easy install

2006-03-25 Thread Daniel A.
On 3/25/06, Kevin Kinsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tim wrote: > > > Why couldn't you guys make a install easy instead of this > > and that, ok I am a newbie and it should be easy, I have > > installed Ubuntu, it was like a dream, smooth as silk, > > Fedora pretty much the same FreeBSD, its a nit

Re: Not an easy install

2006-03-25 Thread Erik Nørgaard
Tim wrote: Why couldn't you guys make a install easy instead of this and that, ok I am a newbie and it should be easy, I have installed Ubuntu, it was like a dream, smooth as silk, Fedora pretty much the same FreeBSD, its a nitemare if you have never done it, I am now reloading windows and then

Re: Not an easy install

2006-03-25 Thread Parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Kevin Kinsey thusly... > > Seems to me, and some others, that PCBSD's implementation of 3rd > party software may get its users in the same sort of "libc hell" > that many Linux users find themselves in someplace down the road. Do you have any pointers where ab

Re: Not an easy install

2006-03-25 Thread Bill Moran
Kevin Kinsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And, incidentally, Tim, judging an OS by its installer is about as useful > as judging women by their appearance. There's more to it than that. ;-) Really? Such as? -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___

Re: Not an easy install

2006-03-25 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Saturday, 25 March 2006 at 9:36:04 -0500, Tim wrote: > Why couldn't you guys make a install easy instead of this and that, ok I > am a newbie and it should be easy, I have installed Ubuntu, it was like > a dream, smooth as silk, Fedora pretty much the same FreeBSD, its a > nitemare if you have

Re: Not an easy install

2006-03-25 Thread Duane Whitty
Tim wrote: Why couldn't you guys make a install easy instead of this and that, ok I am a newbie and it should be easy, I have installed Ubuntu, it was like a dream, smooth as silk, Fedora pretty much the same FreeBSD, its a nitemare if you have never done it, I am now reloading windows and the

Re: Not an easy install

2006-03-25 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Bill Moran wrote: Kevin Kinsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: And, incidentally, Tim, judging an OS by its installer is about as useful as judging women by their appearance. There's more to it than that. ;-) Really? Such as? Well, is it time to take it to chat@ ? ;) It all gener

Re: Not an easy install

2006-03-25 Thread Vayu
On Saturday 25 March 2006 06:36, Tim wrote: > Why couldn't you guys make a install easy instead of this and that, ok I > am a newbie and it should be easy, I have installed Ubuntu, it was like > a dream, smooth as silk, Fedora pretty much the same FreeBSD, its a > nitemare if you have never done

Re: Not an easy install

2006-03-25 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Sat, 25 Mar 2006, Vayu wrote: On Saturday 25 March 2006 06:36, Tim wrote: Why couldn't you guys make a install easy instead of this and that, ok I am a newbie and it should be easy, I have installed Ubuntu, it was like a dream, smooth as silk, Fedora pretty much the same FreeBSD, its a nitem

Re: Not an easy install

2006-03-26 Thread Benjamin Lutz
On Saturday 25 March 2006 16:26, Kevin Kinsey wrote: > Installer, yes. "good system for installing programs" ... some would > differ. Ease of use isn't the only thing that FreeBSD ports offers, > and I'm not sure that PCBSD has that figured out; obviously, that's > open for discussion. Seems to

Re: Not an easy install

2006-03-26 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Benjamin Lutz wrote: On Saturday 25 March 2006 16:26, Kevin Kinsey wrote: Installer, yes. "good system for installing programs" ... some would differ. Ease of use isn't the only thing that FreeBSD ports offers, and I'm not sure that PCBSD has that figured out; obviously, that's open for di