Date: Mon, 09 Aug 1999 12:49:09 -0600 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: Hal Flynn <hal@achilles.gibralter.net>, unfurl@FreeBSD.ORG, chat@FreeBSD.ORG, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD at LinuxWorld Message-ID: <37AF22A5.D2CA6028@softweyr.com> References: <199908090024.RAA06342@usr08.primenet.com>
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Terry Lambert wrote:
>
> > Out of curiousity, how are you "bannerizing" your booth, Bill? I'll admit
> > that when I started using FreeBSD, I was from a Linux and SysV background,
> > and therefore not knowing what to expect (other than that fact that a
> > fellow SA at work swore by it). Label me crazy and write me off (as most
> > other allegedly sane people have), but I think that something to the
> > affect of "FreeBSD, the next level" would draw a little attention. True,
> > not as much as scantily clad females, but somehow reaching into the
> > attention span long enough to draw an audience.
>
> So would a graphic login by default, that doesn't look like a
> kernel horked up a hairball, and advertises the fact that the
> machines in the lab are running FreeBSD, not DOS.
>
> I know there is a lot of resistance to this idea, but when you
> see an idle Windows box, you *know* it's running Windows; when
> you see an idle FreeBSD box, the same is not true.
It is on mine. I use the wdm login manager from WindowMaker, and the "daemon
looking over the wasteland" screen background. One of these days I'm going to
replace the planet earth in the little login box with a daemon logo also. The
next step would be to make a standard "workstation" configuration button that
installs all of this with one (or a few) knobs in sysinstall.
The image is available as part of the FreeBSD theme available at themes.org;
everything else is vanilla WindowMaker straight from port kits.
Maybe I should just write a book...
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
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