From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun May 30 17: 9: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from pop3-3.enteract.com (pop3-3.enteract.com [207.229.143.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 783FF14D5B for ; Sun, 30 May 1999 17:09:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Received: (qmail 42533 invoked from network); 31 May 1999 01:10:08 -0000 Received: from shell-1.enteract.com (dscheidt@207.229.143.40) by pop3-3.enteract.com with SMTP; 31 May 1999 01:10:08 -0000 Received: from localhost (dscheidt@localhost) by shell-1.enteract.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) with SMTP id TAA52760; Sun, 30 May 1999 19:09:03 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) X-Authentication-Warning: shell-1.enteract.com: dscheidt owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 19:09:03 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt To: Mike Smith Cc: Jake Burkholder , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kernel config script In-Reply-To: <199905302238.PAA12315@dingo.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 30 May 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > I'm not sure we want those sort of people. But there's already a What sort of people is FreeBSD after then? There are all sorts of people who need a mailserver, or a webserver, or whatever, who would otherwise get someone to sell them an NT based solution. A friend works for a rather behind the times company who is just getting intra-office email. They had been sold on some gastly solution that runs under NT, and required three boxes to do maybe 80 users mail. Why didn't they use a Unix solution? Too expensive, because they would have had to have paid some high-priced consultant to set things up. If my friend had been able to show off a nifty configuration utility, he might have had better luck selling the FreeBSD solution I recomended. Are you saying that we don't want a presence in any machine room we can get one? That FreeBSD should only be for talented ubergeeks? "The power to serve" doesn't do anyone any good if they can't figure out how to apply it. David Scheidt > Ideally, no interaction at all will be required. Just give me knobs to turn everything off. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message