From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 10 06:06:52 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E28F37B401 for ; Thu, 10 Apr 2003 06:06:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.web.de (smtp02.web.de [217.72.192.151]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03C1F43F93 for ; Thu, 10 Apr 2003 06:06:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jakamara@web.de) Received: from pd9ed37d6.dip.t-dialin.net ([217.237.55.214] helo=web.de) by smtp.web.de with esmtp (WEB.DE(Exim) 4.97 #53) id 193blQ-0004p4-00; Thu, 10 Apr 2003 15:06:48 +0200 Message-ID: <3E956C60.20700@web.de> Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 15:06:40 +0200 From: Jakamara Bruce Jensen Organization: HaikTech User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 X-Accept-Language: de-de, de, en-gb, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Terry Lambert , +FreeBSD en advocacy References: <3E93F627.95F34FCD@mindspring.com> In-Reply-To: <3E93F627.95F34FCD@mindspring.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: jakamara@web.de Subject: Re: Brilliant and very useful for FreeBSD, IMHO X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 13:06:52 -0000 Terry Lambert wrote: > Michael Josefsson wrote: >>Hear, hear! Well spoken. If we consider the system as a tool, then let >>someone set it up and let the users use it. Full stop. It's a militant >>mode but ... > Too militant. This is like saying you should need a sysadmin > for your TV in order to set the SAP, Brightness, Contrast, and > other software settings on the TV. I don't see it that way. Every user can fiddle around with own his settings for the look of his wm and other things and settings. But if he breaks it, he only has to switch back to standart, and he has a running system back agein. And no user has to care about the visual etc 'tunings' an other user has made. ciou Jakamara Bruce Jensen