BSD Question's.

[Danial Thom]

--- Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at ceid.upatras.gr>
wrote:

> On 2005-12-24 14:01, Danial Thom
> <danial_thom at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Don Hinton <don.hinton at vanderbilt.edu> wrote:
> > > For me, FreeBSD is about twice as fast/easy
> to install/configure,
> > > and infinitely cheaper.
> >
> > Considering that WinXP usually comes on the
> computer, I don't see how
> > "installing and configuring FreeBSD" can be
> easier than having to do
> > nothing at all?
> 
> Windows XP comes preinstalled, yes.  Not
> "preconfigured" too.  It so
> happens that configuring a Windows XP system to
> match one's preferences
> has the potential to:
> 
>     a) Screw the machine up so completely and
> utterly that a reinstall
>        is required.
>     b) Take a lot of time.  A huge lot of time,
> because of all the
>        different 'driver' installation
> processes.

Ate you claiming that someone not familiar with
how to configure FreeBSD can't screw it up beyond
usefulness? I can point you at about 10% of my
customers who've spent weeks just trying to
compile a kernel and get basic networking
working, much less a desktop with X.


DT


		
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