Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 06:18:33 -0800 From: Don Wilde <dwilde1@thuntek.net> To: Nicole Harrington <nicole@nmhtech.com>, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is there a reseller program? Message-ID: <36BC4F39.A4E4A80A@thuntek.net> References: <XFMail.990205154324.nicole@nmhtech.com>
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Nicole Harrington wrote: > > On 05-Feb-99 My Secret Spies Reported That Gregory Sutter wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 04, 1999 at 07:05:46PM -0500, Hudson, Laura wrote: > >> > >> Of course, before we attack the NT market, we also need to make FreeBSD > >> easier for the average newbie. How many times recently have you heard "I > >> just installed FreeBSD, why doesn't my sound card work, d00d?!???!?!" > > > > Speaking of this, I just installed Free BDS, and now my MicroWare > > UltraPixel 243 card doesn't work. It was fine under Microsoft. What > > did you do to break my computer? > > > > *LOL* > > I invite everyone here to join Josef Grosch and myself on a few installa-thons > for some similiar experiences. I would love to have a few programmers there to > experience the true needs of the "comman people" who want to get rid of MS but > don't want another hobby. > I am struggling with this, too. For myself, although I'm capable of learning it, there are times when I just want the @#$%!! sound card to work without my having to sort out 47 different kernel options. I'd settle for a little script that would make Apache stop complaining at boot time and set itself up with the domain and IP that I entered on install. > I have to explain that FreeBSD is great, but there *IS* a learning curve. > But lets face it, do we really want to run our servers on something for the > desktop? If we really want that market, we need a FreeBSD-desktop version. IMHO. > I think we're closer than we think. A front end to pkg_info that sorts and searches, some scripts (as above) to take care of the easy gotchas, and more documentation aids (like Forrest Cavalier's Reuse RKT, Linux HOW-TO's, etc.). FreeBSD has a default configuration that it comes up in, let's just refine that a little by helping it over the rough spots. Adding a default X configuration -- which doesn't get installed unless the user requests it -- doesn't take away from FreeBSD's capability as a server. Server users always need to customize it anyway, as soon as there's any networking involved beyond a PPP connection. As long as we never let the GUI admin tools stray from the UN*X mantra of text files, you'll never lose your command-line capability. > BTW: on a side note. > At the last installa-thon the Linux group was advertised, but not there. After > a dozen of so people asked my girlfriend where the Linux people were, she told > one person that "their server crashed so they could'nt make it, would you like > to try FreeBSD instead?" Looking like a cat stunned in oncomming headlights > they turned around and left. > I'd suggest you print out some copies of the Linux World article from December about how FreeBSD is better at being Linux than Linux. And, BTW, thanks for the extra effort [install-a-thons]. Glad you stopped lurking and joined us again. :-) -- oooOOO O O O o * * * * * * o ___ _________ _________ _________ ___==__ V_=_=_DW ===--- Don Wilde dwilde1@thuntek.net [ = = ] /oo0000oo-oo--oo-ooo---ooo-ooo---ooo-ooo---ooo-oo---oo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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