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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!grumpy.fl.net.au!news.webspan.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!arclight.uoregon.edu!nntp.uio.no!news.apfel.de!fu-berlin.de!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!katbert.ipa.net!keyhole.west.spy.net!bleu.west.spy.net!dustin From: dustin@bleu.west.spy.net. (Dustin Sallings) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Why no addusr? Date: 6 Jan 1997 23:04:26 GMT Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA Lines: 34 Distribution: world Message-ID: <5as0dq$a0l@keyhole.west.spy.net> References: <none-ya023480001912962244220001@news.infi.net> <3a13e94547@emw4maba.slip.gp.fht-esslingen.de> <32CCED8B.2E73@unige.it> <5aj14j$ri8@abel.ic.sunysb.edu> <5arjo9$foo@cynic.portal.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: bleu.west.spy.net Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:5069 > >NetBSD needs a nicer install program, and some kind of "getting > >started with NetBSD" document/book. This is one thing we should have > >learned from Linux a long time ago. > > I don't see how this hasn't been `learned' from Linux already; I > don't think you will or would ever have found anyone to disagree > that it would be nice to have a `Getting Started with NetBSD' book. > > However, nobody has stepped forward to write it. Do you think it's > sufficiently important for you to step forward and write it? Although I'm sure many will disagree with my opinions, one of my favorite things about Net is the lack of userland people trying to be an admin on a Net box. Not to be elitist or anything, but I get really sick of people telling me they know Unix while they're asking me questions on how to change their ethernet address on their Linux box. I am *very* pleased with the install on Net. The only thing I'd change was the way it does the partitioning, and I'm not even sure if I'd do that (I had a calculator, and I learned something). I can do a Net install in a fraction of the time it takes to install Linux or Free. True, you have to know what you're doing, but so what? If you don't know what you're doing, run Free, get a clue, then run Net. I never learned very much at all about Unix until I stopped running Linux on my personal machines. I don't want machines that do my work for me, I want machines that help me do my work. -- IPA.net Sysadmin My girlfriend asked me which one I like better. pub 1024/3CAE01D5 1994/11/03 Dustin Sallings <dustin@spy.net> | Key fingerprint = 87 02 57 08 02 D0 DA D6 C8 0F 3E 65 51 98 D8 BE L_______________________ I hope the answer won't upset her. ____________