From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Apr 17 09:22:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA22602 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 09:22:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ringworld.uniscape.com ([206.116.157.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA22497 for ; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 16:21:58 GMT (envelope-from stefanos@ringworld.uniscape.com) Received: from traveler by ringworld.uniscape.com (NX5.67e/NX3.0M) id AA06465; Fri, 17 Apr 98 12:31:36 -0400 Message-Id: <9804171631.AA06465@ringworld.uniscape.com> Received: by traveler.uniscape.com (NX5.67e/NX3.0X) id AA01516; Fri, 17 Apr 98 12:31:28 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: <35367D7D.9AE4092A@ibm.net> X-Nextstep-Mailer: Mail 3.3 (Enhance 2.0b5) Received: by NeXT.Mailer (1.118.2) From: Stefanos Kiakas Date: Fri, 17 Apr 98 12:31:26 -0400 To: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Promoting FreeBSD. Reply-To: stefanos@ringworld.uniscape.com References: <9804162102.AA02400@ringworld.uniscape.com> <35367D7D.9AE4092A@ibm.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Don Wilde wrote: > Valid point. I still think, however, that the most good is done by > teaching _you_ how to write particular scripts/GUI tools for a client. When you set up a FreeBSD server at a small company they don't want to learn everything about FreeBSD. They want to be able to manage a few things so they can get their work done. > Adding and deleting users is an example of a tool that is relatively > constant from system to system, but beyond that, things start to break > down because there are so many different ways FreeBSD can be used. If > the tool is general enough to work, it becomes cumbersome and worse than > learning the text files. The tools should be specific for a particular task. stef --- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Stefanos Kiakas stefanos@uniscape.com http://www.uniscape.com/ e-Scape Information Systems Inc. 514.878.1084 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message