RE: tlug: FreeBSD

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Tue, 2 Jun 1998, Jonathan Byrne - 3Web wrote:

> >I loaded FreeBSD on a spare hard drive I have, last night.  Boy!  Was I
> >spoiled by RedHat.  I can say I'm much more impressed with Linux,
> 
> I know what you mean.  My first exposure to PC UNIX was FreeBSD, about a
> year ago.  It's not that I exactly wanted to do it, but the network ops
> staff told it would be useful to learn UNIX and lent me a FreeBSD 2.2.5 CD
> and some very basic installation instructions.  While I did manage to get it
> installed, I hated it.  Not having any documentation or UNIX experience
> certainly didn't help (I eventually bought the FreeBSD book, but it was sort
> of too little, too late), and I pretty much found it impossible to get my
> work done.  There were no Japanese packages and I didn't know where to get
> any or how to install them, it didn't even support my Japanese keyboard
> correctly, etc., etc.  After a while I just completely stopped using it, and
> shortly after that I reclaimed the partition space for Windows.  I, too, am
> much more impressed with Linux (although I'm sure FreeBSD has made strides
> in the year since I tried it); while I find that the lack of decent end-user
> apps for Linux places a lot of hurdles in my path (especially for working in
> Japanese), Linux is at least usable and I can spend time with it, something
> I wasn't able to do with FreeBSD.

Did you have the Japanese version?  The one we have has a Japanese
installer, Japanese packages, etc... you probably had the USA-version of
2.2.5.. not the J version.  Oh well, Linux is better anyhow, IMHO.

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com, sstone@example.com>
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