On Fri, April 27, 2012 18:30, Freddie Cash wrote: > On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk > <m.e.sanlit...@gmail.com> wrote: >> My opinion is that most important obstacle in front of FreeBSD is its >> installation structure : >> >> It is NOT possible to install and use a FreeBSD distribution directly as it >> is . >> >> In Linux distributions , when a distribution is installed , the user , NOT >> root , can use its facilities WITHOUT setting a ( large ) number of >> parameters >> which it is approximately ZERO . >> >> Contrary to this , when a FreeBSD is installed , an ordinary user can NOT >> use USB , CD/DVD , etc. , and even key board / mouse in X without setting >> MANY parameters in MANY files ( loder.conf , rc.conf , etc. ) . >> >> This point is a very important difficulty for the beginners and a really >> very tiring for experienced users . > > And that's a good thing. :) It forces people to learn. And it > allows people to create the system *they* need, instead of being > forced to use the system "the project" thinks everyone needs. > > We spend a good 2-3 hours customising Ubuntu Server and Debian Linux > installs to make them work they way *we* want them to, with the > software *we* want, and the configurations *we* need. Most of that > time is spent undoing all the "helpful" abstractions that > Ubuntu/Debian devs think make life simpler (and they do, *IF* you use > a GUI to manage things, but CLI users are left in the cold). Just > look at the horrible mess that is GRUB2 configuration on > Ubuntu/Debina, with shell script snippets spread through 4 different > directories. Great for GUI tools to parse and update, but a royal > pain for CLI users.
that could not be more true. Ubuntu won't even ask if you want GRUB, it installs it and will replace your bootloader regardless. I hate that. this is one reason to just use ubuntu where it is alone, and won't harm no OS. FreeBSD asks, and will respect my will to choose. matheus -- We will call you Cygnus, The God of balance you shall be A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
