Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 05:49:36 +1000 From: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> To: Adrian Filipi-Martin <adrian@virginia.edu> Cc: Malartre <malartre@aei.ca>, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Screen Shot Message-ID: <19980419054936.41342@welearn.com.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.96.980418151942.28817A-100000@mamba.cs.Virginia.EDU>; from Adrian T. Filipi-Martin on Sat, Apr 18, 1998 at 03:22:29PM -0400 References: <35383C1A.602F49F6@aei.ca> <Pine.SOL.3.96.980418151942.28817A-100000@mamba.cs.Virginia.EDU>
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On Sat, Apr 18, 1998 at 03:22:29PM -0400, Adrian T. Filipi-Martin wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Apr 1998, Malartre wrote:
>
> > Hey, I have seen a lot of people who where wanting screen shot.
> > Why not giving them the screen shot on www.freebsd.org?
> >
> > Like a link on the first page to "what freebsd look like"
> >
> > Unix seems strange to new user...
>
> Well, I doubt a single screen shot coulw convey much of anything.
> There are just too many things that could be on a FreeBSD display. What
> would it be: X, emacs, the console, quake2, etc.?
OK, what do you suggest? A number of different screen shots? Show variety?
> I suppose one rather impressive image involving FreeBSD is the
> Toshiba Libretto picture from the PAO project page. I just love that the
> X11 is runnig on FreeBSD o a computer that is not as deep as the SUN mouse
> next to it.
That wouldn't have meant a thing to me when I started.
You're almost saying it is better to have no idea than to have the wrong idea.
I'm saying that no idea means that I don't want to go to the trouble of
installing it to find out. Why would I bother? Should I form my conclusions
about its appearance from whatever I am able to make it do in the first
hour? Would that give a new user a better idea of its appearance than a
single screen shot? Probably, but they wouldn't be all that impressed.
It's silly to judge FreeBSD by the way it looks. We know that. They don't,
and we don't get the chance to explain before they form critical impressions.
--
Regards,
-*Sue*-
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