Thanks. Appreciate the response.
It was a coincidence that when you post came in, i was working on
freebsd, and was kinda curious what you found in it to be better. For me
frankly, i found it to be a big pain. But thats just me.
Regards,
Anand Gupta
rajagopal venugopal wrote:
Dear Sunjith and Anand,
sorry for the late reply. pls excuse me for my comments about free
bsd, as i am not an expert in software field. but i use only use free
software and use them extensively for my electronic related projects.
the reason y i installed FreeBSD might seem quite funny. my
motherboard had been given for a repair and i had another spare system
with me but no OS installed. and the Debian cd was with one of my
friends and i could not get it. it was at this time i got the FreeBSD
4.0 cd from binny. i needed my pc for some urgent reading and typing
stuff at that time. so i didnt care whether it was Debian or BSD.
after reading a few how tos i installed FreeBSD on my old pc. i found
the installation a bit difficult because i had to switch the 2 install
cds a lot of times to complete the installation. may be because of my
inexperience or lak of properly reading the how tos. but after the
installation was complete with "boot0" the boot manager i happily
booted into my BSD machine. after that i used the pkg-add tool to
install emacs, links etc. i dont remember the full list as it was
approx an year back and i didnt have the time to document my
activities. common apps like adduser and mount were more user
friendly. the man pages were funtastic. i liked their approach of
including man page for inbuilt shell commands like cd alias etc,
atleast new users wouldnt be confused and get a chance go gain more
knowledge.
thanks and regards,
Rajagopal V
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