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Date:      Thu, 4 Oct 2007 01:48:42 -0500
From:      Astrodog <astrodog@gmail.com>
To:        "Aryeh Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Robert Backhaus <robbak@robbak.com>
Subject:   Re: small purposal for change in installworld
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On 10/3/07, Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Given the inherent dangers of using cvsup, and updating from source, I
> > do not believe this... minor barrier to entry really deserves
> > consideration, and I'm sure we can all agree that it really would be
> > best to paint it blue.
>
> Even though your quiet right from a techinical stand point I think
> this is one of the attitudes that has kept FreeBSD from being
> considered by linux people... namely your right on this specific point
> but the attitude behind is likelly to be a turn off
>

I don't see the FreeBSD project as directly targeting Windows, or
Linux desktop users. The PC-BSD and DesktopBSD projects cover this
nicely. I'm not entirely certain I'd want someone who was turned off
by this behavior using vanilla FreeBSD in the first place.

--- Harrison



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