[PLUG] Linux Desktop - Time to make the change
John Purser
jmpurser at gmail.com
Tue Nov 1 14:50:00 UTC 2005
David Fleck wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, John Purser wrote:
>
>> I started off with FreeBSD. I found the Linux community MUCH
>> friendlier to beginners. The documentation was more complete as
>> well. That was years ago. I might take a little peek again to see if
>> FreeBSD has changed as much as I have.
>
>
> Probably not. I think it's great, but FreeBSD isn't for everyone.
> The documentation is still too sparse, and while I have never noticed
> any specific newbie-unfriendliness on the mailing lists I follow, that
> may be because I'm not a newbie. It's not an OS I'd recommend to
> anyone with lots of multimedia toys or cutting-edge hardware, but
> that's not an issue for me - what I do care about is stability, speed,
> system transparency, and customizability. And robust software install
> & upgrades.
>
>
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> David Fleck
> david.fleck at mchsi.com
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Oh I didn't mean the FreeBSD crowd was UNFRIENDLY. They just were no
where NEAR as encouraging as the Linux community for newbies. RTFM is a
great answer if you already know enough to know WHICH "M" should be
read. If not it's a tad, well, sparse.
But I'm not a newbie anymore either. This could be interesting and I've
got a 10 gig partition just BEGGING for something to do....
John Purser
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