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From: Markus Baeurle <emw4maba@gp.fht-esslingen.de>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Why no addusr?
Date: Sun, 02 Feb 1997 21:09:31 +0100
Organization: FHT Esslingen, Deutschland
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In article <5as0dq$a0l@keyhole.west.spy.net>
dustin@bleu.west.spy.net. (Dustin Sallings) wrote:
> Although I'm sure many will disagree with my opinions, one of my
Yep. ;-)
> 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
Oh come on. What's the point in having to work out how many cylinders 32 MB are
on that harddisk if I've got a computer (coming from "to compute", doesn't it?)
sitting in front of me that has all the info (because I just gave it to him) to
do the calculation for me?
> Net install in a fraction of the time it takes to install Linux or Free.
That's true if you know what you're doing. I also happen to find the FreeBSD
installation clumsy from time to time.
> 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.
Shiver, I always thought UNIX people weren't that ignorant about minorities.
I can understand if Joe Dumbuser who only knows Windows (because he was never
informed that anything else than Windows exists) writes messages like "Where do
I get xyz for my computer?" but you should know that there are other things
than Intel boxes.
I have a rather exotic machine (Acorn RiscPC running NetBSD/arm32) because
that's my machine of choice, can you tell me how to run FreeBSD on that?
I think that's what many people fail to acknowledge: That NetBSD is the only
free Unix a lot of people can run on their computer. That's enough of a reason
for me to try to make NetBSD more user friendly.
Cheerio, Markus