On 29 December 2011 18:23, Pedro Giffuni <p...@freebsd.org> wrote: > --- Gio 29/12/11, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhiteh...@freebsd.org> ha scritto:
>> I'd appreciate any specific comments you might have, and >> especially >> specific suggestions for improvements. Except from people >> who are old >> hands at sysinstall, I've received almost universally >> positive comments >> on the user experience. Patches would be even more >> appreciated, since >> real life has intervened to steal most of my FreeBSD time. >> -Nathan >> > > FWIW; > > I have practically given up on installing FreeBSD lately > and I mostly use PC-BSD. I mainly see two big issues: > > -X.Org has become very difficult to install. Setting up > hald and friends, not to mention that you have to choose > carefully your hardware previously. It's a nightmare. I've not found that... installing xorg-drivers with the correct options is hassle-free... have you posted these problems to -x11@? > - I am OK with sysinstall disappearing: however it was > nice to have all the setup tools in one place. How am > I supposed to install prebuilt packages (and the myriad > of dependencies) from now on? Ports are cool but having > to wait to rebuild gcc to be able to use scilab is a > nonsense. Use packages, we do do them! Chris > PC-BSD is not without problems though. In my system > it wants to use "latam" kbd which doesn't even > exist AFAICT. > > Just my $0.02, I know writing a replacement for the > full blown sysinstall is a rather heroic thing to do. > > Regards, > > Pedro. _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
