From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat Apr 18 14:38:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA04645 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Sat, 18 Apr 1998 14:38:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dns.mail.ida.net (mail.ida.net [204.228.203.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA04619 for ; Sat, 18 Apr 1998 21:38:04 GMT (envelope-from muck@ida.net) Received: from falcon.hinterlands.com (tc-pt1-31.ida.net [208.141.181.40]) by dns.mail.ida.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id PAA14986 for ; Sat, 18 Apr 1998 15:31:16 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <35391D64.41C67EA6@ida.net> Date: Sat, 18 Apr 1998 15:38:44 -0600 From: Mike X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Screen Shot References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Robert Watson wrote: > > I certainly don't debate the technical impressiveness of what has been > achieved with the window-managers. I was particularly impressed by the > cleanness of the KDE interface (although I'd swear I'd seen some of the > layout somewhere before :). Did KDE ever figure out the licensing thing > with QT? I saw a post somewhere recently where they indicated they were > working on an arrangement to fix the problem, but I don't know what came > of that. A lot of people have problems with the license, last I heard, > due to its anti-commercial nature -- something that FreeBSD has rigorously > advoided. > > I personally run olvwm -- I like the simplicity of the interface, as well > as the consistency of the virtual window managing. It also runs nicely on > low-scale workstations. > > A nice screenshot of FreeBSD might be one that demonstrated its > capabilities as an easy-to-manage web server (since that's real popular > just now). If we had emulation of more recent BSD/OS code, we could > demonstrate the Netscape navigator with the Fasttrack web configuration > interface in one portion of the screen, etc. Unfortunately, what looks > nice in a screen-shot is a nice gui admin interface -- which takes us back > to the other conversation of choice. :) I picture of ftp.cdrom.com would > be a nice seller, however. Perhaps with a slogan like, "This machine > ships out more files than 26 Windows NT ftp servers at Microsoft", where > 26 is the appropriate number. According to Microsoft, ( http://www.microsoft.com/Misc/Mscomfaq2.htm ) they have 31 dedicated servers worldwide that have 8.7 gigs of data available for download. These servers are complemented by another 130 servers around the world. I'll leave it to someone else to judge wheather that's a lot of servers to use to offer 8.7 gigs of files for download. Funny thing is, by Microsoft's viewpoint, they probably think that they're bragging when they say that they use hundreds of servers to operate their web and download sites. Mike P.S. Does anybody else but me think that you shouldn't quote the whole friggin' message when replying? Be kind on other people's slow links. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message