From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jan 8 07:30:55 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id HAA18736 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 8 Jan 1995 07:30:55 -0800 Received: from ibp.ibp.fr (ibp.ibp.fr [132.227.60.30]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id HAA18730 for ; Sun, 8 Jan 1995 07:30:53 -0800 Received: from blaise.ibp.fr (blaise.ibp.fr [132.227.60.1]) by ibp.ibp.fr (8.6.8/jtpda-5.0) with SMTP id QAA16057 ; Sun, 8 Jan 1995 16:31:32 +0100 Received: by blaise.ibp.fr (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA28604; Sun, 8 Jan 95 16:31:41 +0100 From: roberto@blaise.ibp.fr (Ollivier ROBERT) Message-Id: <9501081531.AA28604@blaise.ibp.fr> Subject: Re: Graphical installations and such... To: wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu (Wankle Rotary Engine) Date: Sun, 8 Jan 1995 16:31:40 +0100 (MET) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199501072049.PAA05164@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> from "Wankle Rotary Engine" at Jan 7, 95 03:49:33 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23beta2] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 973 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > I know that what I'm about to say probably won't be well received, but > this is how I really feel, so I have to say say it: I'm maybe a little late but I must agree with most of what you've said. The question is "do we really want to address the same users as Linux ?", "do we want to get all the DOS wheenies that just want ot run Linux (or *BSD) just because it a kind of fashion" ? I may seem pretty hard on these users but the fact that the intended audience (sp ?) was not the same for *BSD and Linux (at the beginning) has always been a strong point for me (even if I'm a forever-BSD-addict). A good, robust (even with character based menus fro things like network setup and such) is fine. Having a slackware-like, with X11 and all that just to get more DOS users is not that needed IMO. Shoot away :-) -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: the daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD keltia 2.1.0-Development #2: Sat Jan 7 00:55:25 MET 1995