Not an easy install

[Kevin Kinsey]

beni.brinckman at dommel.be 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
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>>
>
>It won't happen. The standard answer you will get here is "we don't care about
>fancy installers, as long as it's working great" or "if you want it, do it
>yourself".
>
>But I suggest that you take a look at pc-bsd (http://www.pcbsd.org/). It is bsd
>with a nice and easy installer and a good system for installing programs.
>  
>

Installer, yes.  "good system for installing programs" ... some would
differ.  Ease of use isn't the only thing that FreeBSD ports offers,
and I'm not sure that PCBSD has that figured out; obviously, that's
open for discussion.  Seems to me, and some others, that PCBSD's
implementation of 3rd party software may get its users in the same
sort of "libc hell" that many Linux users find themselves in someplace
down the road.

And, incidentally, Tim, judging an OS by its installer is about as useful
as judging women by their appearance.  There's more to it than that.  ;-)

KDK

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