The first time you install BSD, you face a huge learning curve. Unless you come from a UNIX environment, it's a totally new way of thinking. There are several things that people assume you know and therefore leave out of the documentation, or they have arranged the documentation in such a way that you have to know about it to find it.
This happens a lot in the UNIX world. The man(1) pages which are the primary source of UNIX online documentation, assume that you already know what command you are trying to learn about and how it is spelled. (Commands found in the manual are often tagged with their manual section in parenthesis like this: man(1). The 'man' command is found in section 1 of the manual. Try typing 'man man' for more information on the 'man' command.)
If you don't already know the command you are trying to learn, the man pages won't help much. Another place people seem to cut short on documentation is immediately after installation.
This happens a lot in the UNIX world. The man(1) pages which are the primary source of UNIX online documentation, assume that you already know what command you are trying to learn about and how it is spelled. (Commands found in the manual are often tagged with their manual section in parenthesis like this: man(1). The 'man' command is found in section 1 of the manual. Try typing 'man man' for more information on the 'man' command.)
If you don't already know the command you are trying to learn, the man pages won't help much. Another place people seem to cut short on documentation is immediately after installation.
The install process on BSD is getting easier and easier, therefore more people with fewer UNIX skills are getting through the install process. Because of this, there seems to be a growing number of people that get BSD installed, and have no clue what to do when presented with the first login prompt.
Darwin/BSD (localhost) (console) login:
Because BSD is a highly secure operating system, unless the new user knows the default login name and password, the newly installed BSD system is useless to them. The command line interface is also foreign to most new generation users.
