You know, for me, the little things have nothing to do with what you said.
The little things have to do with the stuff my wife needs. Trivial
things, like easily writing data to a CD, just like she does on her
work with Windows, and automounting floppies for DOS formatted
floppies. Automounting
Jim Stapleton wrote:
No offense, but, it doesn't even integrate BASH. I had to install the
bash package so I wasn't stuck to CSH, and BASH is much more popular
than any PHP shell. (Wait, is there a PHP shell? I know there is a CLI
interpereter, but that's different). Regardless, if it's in
What I (a FreeBSD user) really want:
* Xen v3.x dom0 support.
* Xen v3.x domU support.
* Stable File System.
* A Faster, then Linux, File System.
* File system journaling so I don't have to fsck a 2TB array.
* Drivers for even more SAS/SATA RAID Controllers.
* A system that fully supports (no
Greg Barniskis writes:
In my opinion, FreeBSD should never change its model to arriving
as a fully completed cake.
Conversely ... if someone wants to build something fully
specified based on FreeBSD, more power to 'em.
Robert Huff
On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 03:55:03PM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote:
What I (a FreeBSD user) really want:
[...]
What I really want is a keyboard button marked DWIM (NWIS) for Do
What I Meant (Not What I Said).
--
David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
David Kelly writes:
On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 03:55:03PM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote:
What I (a FreeBSD user) really want:
What I really want is a keyboard button marked DWIM (NWIS) for
Do What I Meant (Not What I Said).
A Smite! key.
Robert
On 7/22/06, Freminlins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The only thing I wish I had learned so much sooner was set autolist in my
.cshrc. I didn't know it was there, and I have no idea why it is not in the
default dot.cshrc file. No doubt good reasons, but I got by for months
before I found this out.
On 25/07/06 Henry Lenzi said:
You know, for me, the little things have nothing to do with what you said.
The little things have to do with the stuff my wife needs. Trivial
things, like easily writing data to a CD, just like she does on her
work with Windows, and automounting floppies for DOS
There are major debates in the Linux community about the supposed
user-friendly behaviour of Gnome and KDE, and whether it's truly friendly.
Personally, I'd be happy with a button to mount my devices, instead of
automounting.
Yes, I agree. But you see, sometimes its hard to explain to people
To Whom It May Concern:
Greeting from Australia
I commend your efforts and your success. Following are some gripes with
FreeBSD and ideas to fix them.
I have been using FreeBSD for a few years. I have also played with lots of
Linux distributions but still FreeBSD is my first choice as a
Hello Sammy,
It is really nice that you have told us yourt insight on the matter. I
would also like to express my ideas. Please read my replies inline.
On 7/22/06, sammy sumer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Every Linux Distributor in the world is hard at work reinventing the
interface and making
sammy sumer wrote:
Here is what I would fix:
1.Reinvent the installer and interface.
This has been beaten to death a zillion times. Please read the archives
for opinions and why this won't happen any time soon.
2.Integrate a PHP shell into the core of the system.
Why? Install from
sammy sumer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Here is what I would fix:
1.Reinvent the installer and interface.
Fundamental thing like system installer is still phenomenally arcane. There
is no excuse for FreeBSD developers not to upgrade the system installer and
why not using disk imaging
On Sat, Jul 22, 2006 at 09:03:47PM +1000, sammy sumer wrote:
1.Reinvent the installer and interface.
Fundamental thing like system installer is still phenomenally arcane. There
is no excuse for FreeBSD developers not to upgrade the system installer and
A lot of people consider FreeBSD
Every Linux Distributor in the world is hard at work reinventing the
interface and making the Linux as user friendly as possible but we're still
dogged by turn of the century hassle with our FreeBSD.
Here is what I would fix:
1.Reinvent the installer and interface.
Fundamental thing like
On 7/22/06, Jim Stapleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Every Linux Distributor in the world is hard at work reinventing the
interface and making the Linux as user friendly as possible but we're
still
dogged by turn of the century hassle with our FreeBSD.
Here is what I would fix:
1.
On 22/07/06, sammy sumer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
To Whom It May Concern:
1.Reinvent the installer and interface.
Fundamental thing like system installer is still phenomenally arcane.
There
is no excuse for FreeBSD developers not to upgrade the system installer
and
why not using disk
On Saturday 22 July 2006 10:33, Freminlins wrote:
The only thing I wish I had learned so much sooner was set autolist in my
.cshrc. I didn't know it was there, and I have no idea why it is not in the
default dot.cshrc file. No doubt good reasons, but I got by for months
before I found this
On 7/22/06, Freminlins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 22/07/06, sammy sumer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
To Whom It May Concern:
1.Reinvent the installer and interface.
Fundamental thing like system installer is still phenomenally arcane.
There
is no excuse for FreeBSD developers not to
On Saturday 22 July 2006 12:03, sammy sumer wrote:
3. Content Management Website
Your current website looks very ordinary and doesn't make any impression
for anyone visiting your site for the first time.
There are outstanding open source CMS like Joomla, Mambo, eZ Publish,
Drupel just to
On Saturday 22 July 2006 16:51, David J Brooks wrote:
On Saturday 22 July 2006 10:33, Freminlins wrote:
The only thing I wish I had learned so much sooner was set autolist in
my .cshrc. I didn't know it was there, and I have no idea why it is not
in the default dot.cshrc file. No doubt good
On 7/22/06, sammy sumer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
To Whom It May Concern:
Greeting from Australia
I commend your efforts and your success. Following are some gripes with
FreeBSD and ideas to fix them.
I have been using FreeBSD for a few years. I have also played with lots of
Linux
Complime to the folks at FreeBSD
I write to extend my thanks and appreciation for your replies to my e-mail.
Your responses were clear, easy and straight to the point. Keep up the good
work!
Thank you so much for helping people like me to learn about FreeBSD.
You deserve the Nobel Prize in
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