A case of FreeBSD users shooting all FreeBSD users in the foot?
twig les
twigles at yahoo.com
Mon Oct 13 11:22:29 PDT 2003
> The author had a decent *NIX pedigree, but parts of his tale
> where just
> bizarre. He never installed the Linux compatibility package,
> then
> proceeded to complain that Linux compatibility didn't work.
> This
> trickled over into complaints that OpenOffice for Linux didn't
> work,
> and that printing in general was a nightmare because he
> installed the
> Linux CUPS package instead of the native version. And his
> account of
> sysinstall wiping out his logs is downright puzzling.
Yeah the sysinstall problem was weird. I'm guessing he did a
re-install instead of a configure and just didn't want to admit
it. And my take on the Linux-compat problem was that he got a
broken version bc he was on 5.0, but that definitely set off an
alarm in my head since I've never once had linux-compat not work
fine so mebbe he didnt install it... Overall he just needs to
google, tinker and maybe buy a book, which was my experience
with Linux as well. I hope he does that for the 4.x review.
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