It is very interesting how the subject is shifting to the user in stead of the product. If you arm get broken you place a band-aid to make it heal. You go to the doctor and get the right treatment. Similarly here, if there are several people complaining about the slowness and issues with multiple lib missing from the OS then it must be a bug somewhere, after all there are humans who are developing those applications.
Here is one issue I found with the 9.1 version while trying to compile vim, the installation from the ISO image that I downloaded was looking at ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/ports-current which it was causing the installation to fail because the directory is empty... To correct that issues I had to remove all the posts and updating by running portsnap fetch and then update. Do it look like user error or a bug? Here is another glitch I found after installing FBSD 9.1. The /usr/ports/x11/kde4 was empty, while all other folder contained files to be able to run make install clean, meaning no files in that folder, which drive to the question user or bug?
When using any application, the application needs to be design with the user in mind. If you are asking "does it work for me?" then you are asking the wrong question. The right question is does it work? Does any one goes an by a Cadillac with not pistons in the engine? It is imperative the product works from the start. While they will be minor glitches here and there it is ok, as long as the product or the dealer presents the right solution.
In my case for instance, have the task at hand to find a new desktop for laptops. This was a great opportunity to present the solid FBSD OS as we have been using it for Web Dev, DNS, and WWW as servers. There are plenty of flavor to choose if one one to move to Linux. Lint is one of the top of the line right now. But again the idea is not to tell people, look!, my product is kind of so, move away from it and find another one. The idea is to bring more and more people to use the product by improving it and no to leave it at a below average.
Sorry for the rundown but credit has to be render where it belongs.
Here is one issue I found with the 9.1 version while trying to compile vim, the installation from the ISO image that I downloaded was looking at ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/ports-current which it was causing the installation to fail because the directory is empty... To correct that issues I had to remove all the posts and updating by running portsnap fetch and then update. Do it look like user error or a bug? Here is another glitch I found after installing FBSD 9.1. The /usr/ports/x11/kde4 was empty, while all other folder contained files to be able to run make install clean, meaning no files in that folder, which drive to the question user or bug?
When using any application, the application needs to be design with the user in mind. If you are asking "does it work for me?" then you are asking the wrong question. The right question is does it work? Does any one goes an by a Cadillac with not pistons in the engine? It is imperative the product works from the start. While they will be minor glitches here and there it is ok, as long as the product or the dealer presents the right solution.
In my case for instance, have the task at hand to find a new desktop for laptops. This was a great opportunity to present the solid FBSD OS as we have been using it for Web Dev, DNS, and WWW as servers. There are plenty of flavor to choose if one one to move to Linux. Lint is one of the top of the line right now. But again the idea is not to tell people, look!, my product is kind of so, move away from it and find another one. The idea is to bring more and more people to use the product by improving it and no to leave it at a below average.
Sorry for the rundown but credit has to be render where it belongs.