On Sat, 03 Jun 2006 15:21:38 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Marcin Jessa wrote: > > > On Sat, 03 Jun 2006 11:00:01 +0100 > > Max von Seibold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Hello, > > Hi Max. > > > >> Regarding the issues of production servers. I would like to point > >> out that as a relative *nix newbie I chose Dragonfly because it > >> was new. OpenBSD and NetBSD seemed daunting and FreeBSD seemed > >> wrapped up in all manner of debate. > > > > Could you please explain why NetBSD seems daunting? > > I am curious about what needs to be done differently to encourage a > > newcommer such as yourself to give it a try? > > It uses the same packaging system as DragonFlyBSD and the > > installation procedure is pretty straight forward (as opposite to > > OpenBSD). > > Just an example, if you are a foreigner with for example a french > keyboard, you discover after install that your keyboard is not > configured. >You need to discover how to cope with that in the rc.* > system, to edit the file with your unconfigured keyboard etc. etc. > This seems trivial but it is a good reason to fly away for a > newcomer.
This is set up during installation process. You can chose what kind of keyboard you have. You must have tried an old release of NetBSD. > I mention this problem since i have encountered it, i am > sure there are a lot of similar ones. FreeBSD is not especially > glorious to install but at least such trivial things are solved by > the installer since ages. Anyways the present standard for installers > is much nicer, take a look at the recent Ubuntu which has just been > released. Newcomers have no reason to use a more arcane system, with > a crappy installer, See, Ubuntu is developed for x86 desktops. NetBSD is developed as a multi platform Operating System and uses the same installer on those platforms. NetBSD does things in a very flexible manner so you don't have to hack a whole lot of code to achieve the same goal they way it's done on Linux. Both just aim different markeds. You'd rather use a tank in combat than a fancy car to get through all kinds of obstickles and not just drive on a high way :) >a kernel which underperforms considerably in a > lot of domains when such marvelous Linux distros can be downloaded at > a click of the mouse. I dont understand this sentence. Underperforms in what way? What does kernel has to do with downloading of iso's ? Marcin.
