Re: solaris
- From: Freminlins <freminlins@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2006 19:18:58 +0100
On 06/09/06, White Hat <pigskin_referee@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Immaterial. the singularly most important feature is
suitability to task. If it is free and it does not
work, what good is it?
It depends what you are using it for. You made a comment about "occaisonal
word processing" (pasted below). For such use OpenOffice is perfectly good
enough.
Yes, the lack of documentation is a shame.
In Windows, yes. In FreeBSD I can't see a lack.
The same lack of documentation
plagues every facet of software today.
No it doesn't. FreeBSD is well documented.
However, you have made my point.
No I haven't. I have contradicted your point. You said " A very large
majority of users simply want to use their PCs for email, occasional word
processing and possible game playing." I am saying that using XP as you
suggested is not as easy as you suggest for a very large number of people.
If a user cannot
decipher how to configure a simple thing like Outlook
Express, and there are programs available that will do
it for them, then how are they suppose to be capable
of handling a CLI OS like FreeBSD? It boggles the mind
-- at least mine. Worse, the configuration of OE is
handled by a wizard. It is truly sad when a user
cannot configure something when it is simplified down
to that level.
It's not so much the wizards, but third party applications like virus
scanners which change those settings which is a part of the problem. But you
are not quite comparing apples with apples. Configuring Thunderbird on
FreeBSD is near enough identical to doing the same on Windows. I wouldn't
however expect a complete computer novice to be able to set up a FreeBSD box
without some help.
How? Drop in two CDs or download the programs, run
them and case closed. Neither one requires any
significant configuration. The defaults work just fine
for most users. You could eliminate the Counter Spy
since ZA has its own proprietary SpyWare program, but
I just happen to prefer Counter Spy.
Your statement is simply wrong. AV and anti-spyware DO require
configuration. And they do require installing, and maybe downloading, and
being kept up to date. The defaults certainly don't work all the time in all
cases. Have a look here: "
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/06/faulty_ca_update/";. I have heard of
broken installations for Norton numerous times. And trying to help these
customers is time-consuming for our techies.
Frem.
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