Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 07:49:49 -0700 From: kelly@fsl.noaa.gov (Sean Kelly) To: phk@critter.tfs.com Cc: sos@freebsd.org, jkh@time.cdrom.com, cshenton@apollo.hq.nasa.gov, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Thoughts on the install and on Red Hat Linux. Message-ID: <9511271449.AA16349@emu.fsl.noaa.gov> In-Reply-To: <2082.817473045@critter.tfs.com> (message from Poul-Henning Kamp on Mon, 27 Nov 1995 12:50:45 %2B0100)
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>>>>> "Poul-Henning" == Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com> writes: Poul-Henning> Considering the problems, I belive that an X11-based Poul-Henning> installation is >>not<< the thing we should do Poul-Henning> before we can do a !X11-based installation to some Poul-Henning> level of satisfaction. We could at least provide reasonable skeleton dot files that would set up an attractive X11 interface, after the install's complete ... perhaps to continue the installation of packages, set up user accounts, install printer stuff, etc. I know some users who are shallow enough to prefer a particular Linux distribution over another because it includes a .xinitrc that starts up an fvwm with a .fvwmrc with a pretty color scheme over another distribution that uses good ol' twm. Look at Walnut Creek's CD-ROM catalog: Slackware's screen shot is sexier than FreeBSD's. Sure, we've got technologically superior solutions, and that works for part of the market. But sex sells, too! -- Sean Kelly NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory, Boulder Colorado USA I don't guess I've ever been as scared as when I was waiting in the principal's office. Finally he came in and sat down. He didn't say anything, he just looked at me. Then he pulled a copy of Playboy out. "Is this yours?" he said. "No," I said, "is this yours?" And I pulled out my penis. I guess I wasn't as scared as I thought. -- Jack Handey
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