Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 11:18:00 +0200 From: William Fletcher <ultraviolet@epweb.co.za> To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Workstations Message-ID: <20030415091800.GW73158@tulip.epweb.co.za> In-Reply-To: <20030415015011.S2937@znfgre.tberna.bet> References: <CABF75E36A343E43A588BF9D8673D00A178F30@MAIL.kansas.us> <20030415015011.S2937@znfgre.tberna.bet>
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--JkgDhDyNm4zanevS Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, You said, sell them on the idea of ports, or, suggest it.=20 Anyway, suggest things like portupgrade, using nfs to store distfiles on one server. Very easy to upgrade. Perhaps setup a cvsup-mirror for your demonstrations. And, you'll need to sell them on the idea of a very pretty desktop enviroment, KDE3, Gnome. (I personally prefer windowmaker, but, that isn't going to hold water :/). Anyway, as for redhat, unfortunate to say, the installation is much prettie= r, and, everyone I work with, mostly linux fanatics (who haven't a clue)=20 prefer to install redhat, because text scares them. For some insane reason, management never likes good old black and white console.=20 What you really need to do is select a default layout of packages. Install the machine with that, in as little time as possible. Like, opera\mozilla, KDE3, evolution (puke)... And, make it look pretty.=20 On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 01:51:13AM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: > On Mon, 14 Apr 2003, Etienne de Bruin wrote: >=20 > > Greetings - Our company is considering a move to Red Hat as an alternat= ive > > for Windows workstations and I would like to present a healthy reason w= hy > > FreeBSD would be a 'better' OS to install on our work stations. >=20 > Here's a revolutionary idea... red hat may actually be a better desktop > OS that FreeBSD. Personally I'd be focusing on the joy that is removal of > more microsoft products. :) >=20 > --=20 >=20 > This .signature sanitized for your protection > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-chat-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" --=20 Epweb Computer Monkey William Fletcher <ultraviolet@epweb.co.za> IRC addict ultraviolet on irc.epweb.co.za FreeBSD http://www.FreeBSD.org/ --JkgDhDyNm4zanevS Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+m85Gju3fq0dMPxsRAv9cAKCYn+X4LZxeehs5VzWRUffkYSjHwQCfZfJn jEEIKySbb+Ei8NnMoNYNNQY= =IhxC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --JkgDhDyNm4zanevS--
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