What FreeBSD users really want
jan gestre
freebsd.ph at gmail.com
Sat Jul 22 18:52:54 UTC 2006
On 7/22/06, Freminlins <freminlins at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 22/07/06, sammy sumer <sammy.sumer at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > To Whom It May Concern:
> >
> >
>
>
> 1. Reinvent the installer and interface.
> >
> > Fundamental thing like system installer is still phenomenally arcane.
> > There
> > is no excuse for FreeBSD developers not to upgrade the system installer
> > and
> > why not using disk imaging technology like Norton ghost or Acronis
> > TrueImageinstead of the traditional installation.
>
>
> One thing I would say is that FreeBSD installs a complete operating system
> far faster than any other OS out there. This does matter to some people,
> though not everyone.
>
> A few years ago I was new to FreeBSD (and UNIX/Linux in general) and I
> went
> through the installation. The only thing that caught me out was adding a
> user (me) but not putting myself in the wheel group. After the
> installation
> completed I removed the monitor and plugged it back into my usual desktop
> machine. I could SSH in but not su. It really was the only thing that
> caught
> me out.
>
> 2. Integrate a PHP shell into the core of the system.
> >
> > PHP is by far the most popular computing language in the world. Why not
> > have a shell called PHP shell. So lots of web developers out there can
> > easily create shell scripts in PHP syntax to automate and run programs
> on
> > FreeBSD.
> >
> > Who wants to learn bash or sh scripting? They are by far the least
> popular
> > and ugly programming language in the world.
> >
> > It is astounding that FreeBSD developers have not clued in to the fact
> > that
> > millions of backend webmasters could easily migrate and adopt FreeBSD as
> > their O.S of their choice because of PHP
>
>
>
> Would that be PHP and all its associated modules from the base install?
> That's big, and for many people unnecessary. Why would I need it for my
> (10)
> mail servers. It wouldn't serve any purpose. Also PHP "syntax" is not
> consistent. Take a look here: http://tnx.nl/php.
>
> sh scripting is a low level "standard" across other Unices.
>
> The only thing I wish I had learned so much sooner was "set autolist" in
> my
> .cshrc. I didn't know it was there, and I have no idea why it is not in
> the
> default dot.cshrc file. No doubt good reasons, but I "got by" for months
> before I found this out. All that time I was going "bash can do it, why
> can't csh?"
>
>
> Sammy Sumer
> >
>
> i've done it already, thanks for the set autolist tip frem :)
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