[TriLUG] Opinions on Redmond / Lycoris

[Thunder Bear]

On Thu, 2002-05-23 at 08:47, Mike Helms wrote:

> Every Debian experience I have had thus far has been a bad one.  Buggy
> installs, buggy bootups, and a horrendous interface that offended all of my
> sensitivities.

While I would contend that Debian is *not* an example of an easy Linux
to install, I wouldn't describe it as buggy (I've only installed it on a
couple of x86 boxes and one UltraSPARC).  But once it is on, it seems to
be very solid.  Corel did some great work towards improving the
installer and the interface but sadly they dropped off the Linux map.

> However, that was also about two years ago.  I really should give them
> another try - after I try FreeBSD, which I have heard nothing but good
> about.

If you didn't like the Debian installer, I don't think you'll like
FreeBSD any more.  The package management in the *BSD's is also nearly
non-existant (yes, I've used the poorly named "ports" tree and that is
not a package manager).  Actually all of the *BSD's are rather...
errmmmm... utilitarian in their installers.  On the upside it takes
about 6 or 7 minutes for me to install OpenBSD on a modern PC because of
that.