From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon Jul 26 11:18:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from waveconcepts.com (waveconcepts.com [207.126.116.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29AC415136 for ; Mon, 26 Jul 1999 11:18:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from siberian@siberian.org) Received: from [216.112.76.84] (gamera.siberian.org [216.112.76.84] (may be forged)) by waveconcepts.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id LAA10481; Mon, 26 Jul 1999 11:14:13 -0700 (PDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: siberian@207.126.116.40 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 11:17:40 -0700 To: Jeremy Shaffner From: John Armstrong Subject: RE: What to tell to Linux-centric people?! Cc: "'freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org'" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Yup, but its doesnt say : 'Hello Mr. Linux user, would you like me to make you feel at home'. Its a compromise between excessive customization without user notification and the current situation ( which I personally like ) of installing and assuming nothing extraneous. I was just trying to put out an intermediate ground between Radu's extremism and the FreeBSD culture. John- At 12:50 PM -0500 7/26/99, Jeremy Shaffner wrote: >On Mon, 26 Jul 1999, John Armstrong wrote: > > > install FreeBSD it says 'Do you want to configure this as an NFS > > server?' 'Do you want to configure this as an NFS client' etc we may > > want to have it say 'Would you like me to install Tools familiar to > > Linux users?' > >Isn't that what "Would you like to install additional software packages >now?" is for? > >-Jeremy > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message -------------------------------------------------------------------- People will remember you better if you always wear the same outfit. - Talking Heads To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message