The small installations network filesystem and users.

[Wojciech Puchar]

On Mon, 20 Jun 2016, Chris Watson wrote:

> I'm glad you brought this up. I wanted to but I've heard it before on the lists and realize that there is this disconnect between the developers doing the actual work to implement these things and the end users.
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> I have always been very grateful to all the developers who over the years, and I've been a FreeBSD consumer since the late 90s? And attended my first usenix/freenix conf in Monterrey in 2001?, have done some really hard work on many many things in FreeBSD. For zero pay. But the thing that has always bothered me about a lot of it is, it's just to complex to use for most end users. Not all. But people want to get work done. Sifting through .conf files, googling howtos, spending more time configuring it than installing it has always been an issue. Developers in general do not think like an end user. And this leads to non developers just going "screw it I'll just get it running on Linux with my GUI installer." Which is why FreeNas is so popular. It's taken a lot, not all, but a lot of the pain and time consuming nature of learning all the ins and outs of a NAS appliance from the equation.

FreeBSD have very well done man pages. I simply read them.