Not an easy install

[Kevin Kinsey]

Tim wrote:

> Why couldn't you guys make a install easy instead of this
> and that, ok I am a newbie and it should be easy, I have
> installed Ubuntu, it was like a dream, smooth as silk,
> Fedora pretty much the same FreeBSD, its a nitemare
> if you have never done it, I am now reloading windows
> and then putting back Ubuntu, unless someone over
> there can make it simple even for me.
>
>
> Tim Stevens
>

1.  Troll, I command thee, begone!  :-D

2.  "FreeBSD *is* user-friendly; it's just picky about
who those friends are...."  (might read that as "newbs
are expected to RTF*M like the rest of us....") ;-)

Seriously, Tim, this is an issue that's *not* going to
be resolved any time soon.  There are plenty of
reasons why, and some of them are good (not to
mention, in the words of the immortal JKH, 'libncurses
makes the baby Jesus cry') and some aren't.

If you want FreeBSD with a GUI installer and KDE (I
don't, necessarily),  head on over to www.desktopbsd.org. 
Some of us are O.K. with our "stone knives and bearskins",
as long as they work.  As for you, install what you want. 
That's what "free", as in "FreeBSD", is really about.

My $0.02, and I'm out of change on this one....

Kevin Kinsey

*Friendly!  Read the **friendly** manual!!

P.S. Oh, golly; I forgot the part about "become a committer
and fix it yourself."  But, that's really not necessary, I
don't think....

P.P.S.  Anyone got a procmail recipe for sysinstall flames?