On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 16:52, wendy wrote: > Easy to install > FreeBSD can be installed from a variety of media including CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, > floppy disk, magnetic tape, an MS-DOSĀ® partition, or if you have a network > connection, you can install it directly over anonymous FTP or NFS. All you > need is a couple of formatted 1.44MB floppies and these directions. > > > > THIS IS NOT TRUE! - the installation actually is very difficult and so this > "Superior" OS is not for 99.9% computer users - I'll probably kill my time > only if I lost my job and stay home having nothing to do to configure how to > install it. > > Comparing to Windows, this BSD is very dumb- want to me to tell it > everything. No wonder it's Free.
I have to disagree ive installed it today for the first time on test machine and apart from having slight problems with sound driver (which m$ windoze did not auto configure either) didn't have much trouble looks to be pretty solid have to say boot up and shutdown seem alot quicker than linux arden > > > > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"