Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2003 11:08:05 -0500 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> To: "Gregory A. Gilliss" <ggilliss@netpublishing.com> Cc: advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Look what a mess I made (was Brilliant and very useful...) Message-ID: <3E91A265.1020906@centtech.com> References: <20030407153600.GA51613@netpublishing.com>
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Gregory A. Gilliss wrote: > Happy Monday. > > I've lurked a while in the hope that my initial topic would come around > again...finally. The following excerpt makes my point for me: > > >>I somewhat disagree - most people use computers as a tool, and don't >>care to learn all the ins and outs of the os. Now, I personally want to >>know what is going on in the os, but my (for instance and example again) >>wife doesn't care. She doesn't care how it got to the point it is at, >>just as long as she can get what she needs to done. > > > Thanx to Eric Andersen who "got it". > [..snip..] > The point - the reason that I thought that this article has value - > is that the FreeBSD community doesn't - dare I say it - pander - to > the user community. We act like the intelligencia of *NIX - > AND IT IS COSTING US THE USER BASE. > > Good tools require no instruction. That was the point, not the rest of > this didactic cruft. Now, all I need is to figure out how to tweak sysinstall and add some "newbie" features that "do it all".. maybe a committer that knows the sysinstall gunk will see this.. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Attitudes are contagious, is yours worth catching? ------------------------------------------------------------------
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