Re: Downloading NetBSD - Too complicated ?

[Zafer Aydoğan <zafer%aydogan.de@localhost>]

Lucius, its not about installing, its about getting an image to install.

That process is just too complicated and needs to be easier.


2014-02-06 18:02 GMT+01:00 Lucius Rizzo <Lucius.Rizzo%lucius.xxx@localhost>:
> Andy Ruhl wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 6:33 AM, Ottavio Caruso
>> <ottavio2006-usenet2012%yahoo.com@localhost> wrote:
>> > On 6 February 2014 13:51, Zafer Aydoğan <zafer%aydogan.de@localhost> wrote:
>> >> At that point, I crosschecked with www.netbsd.org and was embarrassed, how
>> >> complicated it is to get a copy of NetBSD.
>> >
>> > Don't be.
>> >
>> > Clicking on six links is not rocket science. I think Netbsd caters for
>> > a certain audience that wants to have a bit more control on the system
>> > and would gladly sacrifice a user-friendly web dialogue.
>> >
>> > What about the install.* documentation instead? That one is a bit too
>> > terse and frankly outdated. It assumes a certain experience with
>> > Netbsd which not everybody has.
>> >
>> > Not to mention the official documentation on the website, which in my
>> > opinion is based on the 5.x release.
>>
>> I think NetBSD has been alienating newer users for a long time. Even
>> back in the 1.4 days when I started using it, it was difficult to get
>> installed.
>
> I disagree with this assertion. NetBSD is far easier to install than say
> OpenBSD (simply if we were to talk about installers). The both are relatively
> painless really compared to say Solaris Jumpstart. If you wanna loose hair.. 
> :P
>
> Nevertheless, as it was said earlier NetBSD seems to cater to a certain
> crowd. Who appreciate the nuances.
>
> My 0.0000000001 Bitcoin opinion.
>
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