From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 8 11:16:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from relay2.inwind.it (relay2.inwind.it [212.141.53.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 438E037B479 for ; Wed, 8 Nov 2000 11:16:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from bartequi.ottodomain.org (62.98.162.146) by relay2.inwind.it (5.1.046) id 3A01ADFF001E0DA2; Wed, 8 Nov 2000 20:15:32 +0100 From: Salvo Bartolotta Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 19:16:08 GMT Message-ID: <20001108.19160800@bartequi.ottodomain.org> Subject: Re: Information, new, propaganda:) To: "Artem Koutchine" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <014801c049ac$a3717c20$0c00a8c0@ipform.ru> References: <010d01c04998$04ceeb20$0c00a8c0@ipform.ru> <001401c0499c$862d1080$0200000a@vladsempire.net> <014801c049ac$a3717c20$0c00a8c0@ipform.ru> X-Mailer: SuperCalifragilis X-Priority: 3 (Normal) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [Ok, it is time I lowered my signal to noise ratio just a little] >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< On 11/8/00, 6:50:59 PM, "Artem Koutchine" wrote=20 regarding Re: Information, new, propaganda:): > [SNIP] [SNIP] [SNIP] > > Let me see if I am understanding the point you are trying to make. > > > > 1) www.freebsd.org doesn't contain any information about the new=20 releases > > of freebsd that is useful to someone that is considering the move to= > > freebsd. > not only that. I does not contain enough information about the current= > releases, > the release politics, the philosophy of the system, the screebshots,=20 the > attractions Well, er, ahem, I did NOT learn about FreeBSD from the freebsd site=20 :-) Hmmm,=20 <...recalling...> I read Greg's "The Complete FreeBSD"; I thourougly examined the=20 FreeBSD site. I found it contains excellent (as well as excellently=20 written) documentation. I am afraid a good number of people have probably visited the site=20 *after* reading some (more or less learned) *written* stuff. Perhaps,=20 in this connection, a little marketing might help. Extreme case: M$ is=20 a MS, ie rather than an operating system, it is a Marketing System...=20 :-) FWIW, I think FreeBSD should target on advanced to professional users=20 (ie, if I may say so, both on the workstation and server areas, with=20 greater emphasis on the server side). Or even on power users=20 **willing** to learn. BTW, my understanding is that the user basis has=20 been steadily growing. Nowadays, "progress" seems to consist in passing from dumb terminals=20 in front of smart users to dumb users in front of smart terminals. Best regards, Salvo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message