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From: csgr@cs.ru.ac.za (Geoff Rehmet)
Subject: Re: Impressions: FreeBSD vs Linux
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Date: Sun, 10 Apr 1994 12:25:20 GMT
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In <2o7ane$c6s@menudo.uh.edu> cosc19v2@menudo.uh.edu (cosc19v2) writes:
>I am sick of these people who are whining that people are complaining. :) :)
If you have a constructive comment to make - do so, if not SHUT UP!
>Some *BSD people think that they are good at UNIX, but this is not true.
>One proof is that people are saying, "We spent day and night to make things
>work", but how can they write so BAD scripts for installation during so many
>days and nights ? Even a unix novice can write a nice script for a short
>amount of time.
Thankyou for the offer to write a perfect installation script. When you
have it complete and working under all hardware configurations, please
forward a copy to me.
(What we need is people who are going to step in and offer solutions to
problems, not sit on the sidelines and shout the odds.)
>Installing NetBSD/FreeBSD with DOS in single drive does not work and
>the documentations are incorrect. Please either correct them or remove them
>so that naive people may not need to waste their valuable time.
Umm, when did you last install FreeBSD on a system with a DOS partition?
(I did so last November, and it worked first time. On installations,
the only problems I have had have been due to my own stupidity. This
is not to say that the install script is perfect - far from it in fact.)
(Once again, if you don't know what you are talking about SHUT UP.)
Time for me now to get hold of a serious amount of valium.
Can't we all just get back to hacking, and quit this rubbish!!!
Geoff.
(Opinions are my own.)
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