[General] news with istallation of 1.6RC1

[Ernst W. Winter]

Hello all,

I had a friend over yesterday afternoon that needed something to
offer to clients to change to another OS. So I let him install DBSD
ob his Laptop, a Gericom with a 1.6G CPU, I think it was a Intel.

First of all I have to say that I was so suprised to see the
installation by someone that doesn't know DBSD. He isntalled it
nearly without a hitch, except for the "disk partitioning" he was a
bit perblexed, but accepted it then. He wanted to set up the usual
way as I do, so I would say that is one thing to have as well in the
future, especially for when a Sysadmin want to install clients.

The rest was "ROCK STABLE"!!!!

I'm still amazed how good it is and it reminds me that with FreeBSD
that the stability mattered and was not releases until it was real
good. This is one point I always apreciated, even though I' impatient
too in such ways. :-)

What amazed the guy most was the "package manager" and how smooth it
was. I had to give little advice on what and how, which I found good
as such since he installed the system in German language, which I
still had to learn too. Even that it is my native language I still
feel better with English installations. :-)

I have several other frineds I have sent your CD and will wait what
the results are. I can already immagine what it will be.

My suggestioons to you all will be:

Why not release a version before you incorporate a new version of X
as that way people have something that is "as rock stable" as I can
see and use it, as it WILL FROM NOW ON replace my 6.2STABLE version
on my Laptop for good! That way people can have somehting stable and
I'm sure it will do you all good and be passed around and know
faster/better than you can imagine. Think it over as this would be
the best advertising you would get. Of course I will do my best too
to make it "NO. 1" and keep it distributed and make people aware of
it.

Another question is, what about with 64bit as I could give some of
you access to a AMD264 with DualCore as I have done often in the past
to developers with some FreeBSD apps or code to try out. Let me know
what you think of this.

I can't say moore as I find it as good a full production version now
and some friends here too that have tested it so far and put it on
their machines. That reminds me too that you could set up a list on
your Website on what machines DBSD runs!

Ernst

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