Re: Not yet ready for FreeBSD
From: Al C. (acanton_nospam_at_takeout_adams-blake.com_nospam)
Date: 08/06/05
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Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2005 15:21:33 GMT
Tim Hammerquist wrote:
>
> You haven't even used it, but your telling them how to improve
> it?
>
Just some suggestions. No offense was intended. If that is how it came
across, it was not my intent so please excuse.
> I've installed several FreeBSD 5 boxes, and the only thing I've
> had to struggle to configure was the sound device on my nForce2
> motherboard. Other than that... X, KDE... all worked fine for
> me.
>
I didn't know that. From the handbook one gets the impression that you have
to install KDE, the fonts, the sound drivers, etc. and then go through
config-hell via editing of arcane text files via arcane editors (vi, emacs,
joe, eye, etc.) to get everything to work.
I used Slackware for a few years. Indeed, the FreeBSD install sounds and
looks similar to Slackware. (Actually FreeBSD resembles a lot about
Slackware... but without the bad attitude (any of you who have spent time
on the Slack NG knows what I mean! :-))
No doubt I can get the puppy running when/if I find a full day or two to
devote to it. With some of the Debian-based distros (I run one called
Kanotix) it's basically plug and play.... install and run.
People coming from some of the current distros (like me) are just spoiled
rotten with the ease and simplicity of installing Linux these days and the
thought of slogging it out with one config file after another (like Slack),
constantly restarting (either X or whole system) is just not as appealing
as it used to be (when I was younger... I'm an almost-60 baby-boomer...
yikes !!!)
For Slackware and other distros there are some guys who have 'how-to
install' sites with tons of screen-shots along the way targeted to new
users. The first time I installed Slackware one of these sites was very
valuable as a step-by-step guide of what to do.... and with the pix... of
what it all looked like.
The FreeBSD handbook is quite good... but it is designed to cover ALL
possibilities and as such goes into a bit more minutia than the first-timer
with FreeBSD might need. I'd love to see a "here is how I did it" screen by
screen install guide by someone who installed your basic desktop KDE
workstation with Open Office, xmms or Kaffeine, FireFox, etc. Sure, some
things might be different for different hardware but most of it will be the
same... and if I know what works for 'you' I can figure out (or easily ask)
what will work for me.
Anyway, you convinced me to give this a try... when I find that free day
that I think it will take to get it going... by trial and error (mostly
error, I'm sure!!)
Al
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