From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Mar 1 14:19: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from snarf.osdn.com (snarf.osdn.com [209.192.217.153]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 986A637B718 for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2001 14:19:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jim@guinness.osdn.com) Received: from guinness.osdn.com (root@du128120.mtz.ptd.net [204.186.128.120]) by snarf.osdn.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f21MIu722109; Thu, 1 Mar 2001 17:18:56 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jim@guinness.osdn.com) Received: (from jim@localhost) by guinness.osdn.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) id f21MHFl04149; Thu, 1 Mar 2001 17:17:15 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jim) Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 17:17:14 -0500 From: Jim Mock To: Clinton Roane Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Getting More Users Message-ID: <20010301171714.C3896@guinness.osdn.com> Reply-To: mij@osdn.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.16i In-Reply-To: ; from clinton.roane@worldnet.att.net on Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 03:33:28PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 01 Mar 2001 at 15:33:28 -0500, Clinton Roane wrote: > This is just a suggestion for future BSD releases. Although I > understand that FreeBSD is Not Linux, I think it would be more > beneficial to acquire more users by providing a more easy way of > installing FreeBSD. I am trying to install as I type and am having > some problems. I think I will be ok after several attempts. But if > we provide an install procedure say similiar to Redhat or Caldera than > more people may be willing to switch and/or try FreeBSD. Don't get me > wrong. BSD is more of a technical persons system than say Microsoft > but we need to get more users of FreeBSD on the bandwagon. This has been brought up repeatedly over the last 7 years, and there have been a few people working on a new installer, but nothing ever seems to come of it. Besides, FreeBSD's installer isn't *that* bad. Go install Debian sometime if you want to see a horrible installer. It makes sysinstall look like it's the best thing since sliced bread. > Also, I see alot of magazines about Linux but not a FreeBSD specific > magazine. We might want to try at least a one or two time issue to > see how this goes. Daemon News now publishes a magazine about BSD, but chances are you'll never see anything mainstream like Linux Journal or Linux Magazine simply because FreeBSD isn't a buzz word like Linux :-) The fact also remains that these things cost money -- usually lots of it if you plan on succeeding -- and unfortunately it still doesn't grow on trees. - jim -- - jim mock - O|S|D|N - open source development network - - http://www.freebsdzine.org/ - jim@freebsdzine.org - jim@FreeBSD.org - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message