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From: mi@rtfm.ziplink.net (Mikhail Teterin)
Newsgroups: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD (or something else?)
Date: 6 Apr 1997 04:08:33 GMT
Organization: Aldan at Newton Upper Falls
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Honorable Goatboy
wrote on 04 Apr (in article <33457087.6003026@news.sprynet.com>):
=2) MS has made computing easier. To install a prog in win95, u insert
=the cd, and the install prog runs. With Linux, u switch to the cd, run
=some make commands, puts various files in various dirs, edit lots of
=config files written in greek, and on and on... Gee, which is easier?
As a matter of fact, I find that feature greatly annoying. Here is
my typical scenario when I have to install smth on NT4 (at work):
Put in CD. The setup program is started automaticly (did I ask for
it? well, it guessed). At some point, the install will ask me for
the CD-key, which, (oh, not again) is written on the CD itself.
Eject the CD, type in the key, put the CD back. *Boom* -- another Setup
program is started (NO, I did not ask for it, wrong guess this time)...
Personally, I find *BSD's ports-mechanism to be the easiest way of
installing ported software.
-mi
--
"Windows for dummies"