The case for FreeBSD

[Marian Hettwer]

Hi there,

supraexpress at globaleyes.net wrote:
> WHY all of the moaning and groaning about "lack of exposure" for FreeBSD when
> the Installer is one of the main reasons for this? I know of someone, a
> "general user", who specifically gave up on FreeBSD because of the Installer,
> and jumped over to one of the Linuxes which was "much easier to install". I
> have had to help a couple of others through the Installer because they had
> "gotten lost". This is NOT an excuse for excluding people from discovering or
> using FreeBSD!
>
come on. Be a little bit more real.
Even if we would have a fancy installer (please not as blown up as 
SuSE's or RedHat's), I bet that this Average User couldn't work with 
FreeBSD anyway.
A lot of stuff needs to be configured by hand on FreeBSD. That's the way 
it works now.
If Average Joe can't use sysinstall with www.freebsd.org/handbook/ at 
his hands, he won't be able to use FreeBSD anyway.

Look at the Gentoo Folks, they have a growing userbase and still their 
way of installing is (IMO) harder without documentation than installing 
FreeBSD.

However. Making sysinstall easier ( == fewer options) for newbies might 
be a good idea. If you don't have the handbook you _may_ get lost, due 
to the high amount of options to choose from.

best regards,
Marian
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