I don't say this to brag, but rather to emphasize the point that comes afterward. I have been a network/system administrator for about 15 years now. I have worked with more operating systems than I can remember, to include: DOS 3.3 - 6.2 (with and without Windows 3.1), FreeDOS, Windows NT - 7/2008 & Windows 95 - ME, Linux (Red Hat since v 5, Fedora, CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu, DSL, Puppy, Slax, and Slackware), ReactOS, BeOS, Mac Classic, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and Solaris.
I really like the BSD way of doing things, from your development model to your license to ports vs. binary downloads. I would LOVE to recommend FreeBSD to lay-people as a viable alternative to Windows, but I cannot. You guys have GOT to take a page out of Canonical's playbook, and make it easy to install FreeBSD. Honestly, I was just installing both Solaris Express 11 and FreeBSD 8.2 in VM's at the same time. Solaris was far easier. SOLARIS!
Honestly, I don't mean to be disrespectful, but an idiot-proof GUI installer would go a long way to making FreeBSD a more popular OS.
I really like the BSD way of doing things, from your development model to your license to ports vs. binary downloads. I would LOVE to recommend FreeBSD to lay-people as a viable alternative to Windows, but I cannot. You guys have GOT to take a page out of Canonical's playbook, and make it easy to install FreeBSD. Honestly, I was just installing both Solaris Express 11 and FreeBSD 8.2 in VM's at the same time. Solaris was far easier. SOLARIS!
Honestly, I don't mean to be disrespectful, but an idiot-proof GUI installer would go a long way to making FreeBSD a more popular OS.