Nuke Richmond

From: Mike Ford <mikeford_at_socal.rr.com>
Date: Sat Jan 13 01:41:32 2001

>I take an aside to this. The current crop of BSD and Linux flavored unix
>like
>OSs seem to be as easy to install as W9x. With one caveat, the unix
>camp is steeped in 30+ years of unix culture. It is this culture that

When you have a LOT of unix experience they do seem about as easy to
install, but I am a fairly normal, knowledgable person and it took me
roughly 12 hours to get my first NetBSD system running on a Mac IIci as a
limited function Nat/firewall. I still don't "understand" much of what I
had to do, but the mechanics of doing it are much more familiar. Exiting vi
the first time I edited /etc/resolv.rc only took about an hour.

CLEARLY what I struggled with manually could have been scripted etc., but
at what price? (both in $ and failing to learn how to exit vi). When I
recommend NetBSD, part of the recommendation is before you get started,
join a support list (and I give a URL).

With windows the problem is the opposite, the damn thing wants to run
EXACTLY the way it wants to with few if any user options and very much at
your own risk.
Received on Sat Jan 13 2001 - 01:41:32 GMT