[ILUG-Cochin.org] Mailinglist Digest, Vol 61, Issue 8

[Anand Gupta]

Thanks. Appreciate the response.

It was a coincidence that when you post came in, i was working on 
freebsd, and was kinda curious what you found in it to be better. For me 
frankly, i found it to be a big pain. But thats just me.

Regards,

Anand Gupta



rajagopal venugopal wrote:
> Dear Sunjith and Anand,
>
> sorry for the late reply. pls excuse me for my comments about free 
> bsd, as i am not an expert in  software field. but i use only use free 
> software and use them extensively for my electronic related  projects. 
> the reason y i installed FreeBSD might seem quite funny. my 
> motherboard had been given for a repair and i had another spare system 
> with me but no OS installed. and the Debian cd was with one of my 
> friends and i could not get it. it was at this time i got the FreeBSD 
> 4.0 cd from  binny. i needed my pc for some urgent reading and typing 
> stuff at that time. so i  didnt care  whether  it was Debian or BSD. 
> after reading a few how tos i installed FreeBSD on my old pc.  i found 
> the installation a bit difficult because i had to switch the 2 install 
> cds a lot of times to complete the installation. may be because of my 
> inexperience or lak of properly reading the how tos. but after the 
> installation was complete with "boot0" the boot manager i happily 
> booted into my BSD machine. after that i used the pkg-add tool to 
> install emacs, links etc. i dont remember the full list as it was 
> approx an year back and i didnt have the time to document my 
> activities. common apps like adduser and mount were more user 
> friendly. the man pages were funtastic. i liked their approach of 
> including man page for inbuilt shell commands like cd alias etc, 
> atleast new users wouldnt be confused and get a chance go gain more 
> knowledge.
>
>
> thanks and regards,
> Rajagopal V
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