From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 15 02:18:41 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6777437B401 for ; Tue, 15 Apr 2003 02:18:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tulip.epweb.co.za (tulip.epweb.co.za [196.14.166.22]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8C0243FBD for ; Tue, 15 Apr 2003 02:18:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ultraviolet@tulip.epweb.co.za) Received: from tulip.epweb.co.za (localhost.epweb.co.za [127.0.0.1]) by tulip.epweb.co.za (8.12.7/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h3F9I6df097192 for ; Tue, 15 Apr 2003 11:18:06 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from ultraviolet@tulip.epweb.co.za) Received: (from ultraviolet@localhost) by tulip.epweb.co.za (8.12.7/8.12.8/Submit) id h3F9I0mI097188 for chat@freebsd.org; Tue, 15 Apr 2003 11:18:00 +0200 (SAST) Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 11:18:00 +0200 From: William Fletcher To: chat@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20030415091800.GW73158@tulip.epweb.co.za> References: <20030415015011.S2937@znfgre.tberna.bet> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="JkgDhDyNm4zanevS" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030415015011.S2937@znfgre.tberna.bet> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Subject: Re: Workstations X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 09:18:41 -0000 --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 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--