Re: solaris

--- Freminlins <freminlins@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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.

That is a totally unqualified evaluation. While it may
be totally suitable for one individual, that in no way
infers that it meets the requirements of another.
There is no way you can define an end users
requirements based solely on your own usage.

Yes, the lack of documentation is a shame.

In Windows, yes. In FreeBSD I can't see a lack.

You are kidding right. I can find vastly more
documentation available for a win32 machine than for
FBSD. In fact, the lact of documentation is one of the
reasons that support groups like this evolved. To my
great dismay, I am forced to search for and then
download documentation via the web. Even then, that is
often dated. Not anyones fault, it is just the way it
goes.

The same lack of documentation
plagues every facet of software today.

No it doesn't. FreeBSD is well documented.

It is above average, I will agree. However, if it were
really perfect then this forum would not exist.


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 that were true, MS would not rule 90+ percent of
the PCs in use today. Why do you think users in third
rate countries pirate MS when they could get FBSD for
free? I would not want to insult anyone; however, if
you cannot install an MS operating system then perhaps
you should consider another hobby. Even my wife's
sister can handle that project, and that is a woman
who considers a can opener a high tech device.

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.

You have users here with 10+ years experience who run
int problems. It is just the nature of the beast. It
comes with the territory.

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: "

Obviously it required installation. Before you can
install, it is again obvious that you must secure the
item. One size definitely does not fit all. What is
your point?

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.

Norton is pathetic, that I will agree with you on that
one. That is why I switched three years ago to ZA. It
has never given me a moment of trouble, although the
CA AV it uses by default is not RFC 2595 compliant
which was causing my network problems. One I corrected
it though, everything was back to normal.

BTW, 'time consuming for your techies'? Ah gee, like
what are they paid for? To stand around and kiss each
others ***. I am sick of over paid techies who have
no working knowledge of what they are doing. If they
find their job to stressful, quit!

Please do me one favor, do not CC me. I am continually
getting two copies of these. I subscribe to the list.
I don't send you duplicate copies and therefore would
appreciate the same cutesy. Perhaps my address was
already inserted by a previous poster. If so, please
do remove it.

Thank You!


--

White Hat
pigskin_referee@xxxxxxxxx

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