"Gour-Gadadhara Dasa" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > >One of the reasons to switch to FreeBSD was to spend less time >tinkering with the OS and "just use it".
I recently installed a FreeBSD virtual machine to try to make sure some of my stuff worked there (Using Sun's^WOracle's VirtualBox). I'm no BSD expert either, but based on my experiences so far, FreeBSD seems to be *exactly* the kind of system that you have to spend all day tinkering with just to get anywhere at all. My first couple installation attempts failed. I finally got it to install, but I can't even get the damn X11 to run. At all. Someone on some forum said I needed to run some X11 setup program, but I couldn't get that to run either. And I'm sure I did install X11 (Hell, I installed practically everything, including some KDE/GNOME stuff. At the very least I would think any sensible dependency system would know "Ok, those need X11"). Granted, there are definitely Linux distros that are the same way, too. But I know firsthand that there are also Linux distros that are *not* like that (Like Ubuntu, even if some Linux purists might shun it.)
