From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sun Jul 25 18:54:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from smtp2.erols.com (smtp2.erols.com [207.172.3.235]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93A2614D95 for ; Sun, 25 Jul 1999 18:54:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jobaldwi@vt.edu) Received: from john.baldwin.cx (207-172-143-156.s29.as2.hgt.md.dialup.rcn.com [207.172.143.156]) by smtp2.erols.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA22902; Sun, 25 Jul 1999 21:51:56 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199907260151.VAA22902@smtp2.erols.com> X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <19990724131017.O84734@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Sun, 25 Jul 1999 21:51:16 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: Greg Lehey Subject: Re: What to tell to Linux-centric people?! Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 24-Jul-99 Greg Lehey wrote: > That's inadequate for people coming from Linux. We know roughly what > they want; why not take the needles out of the haystack? > > For the rest of you: in my message to Jordan, I specifically mentioned > bash and colorls. What other items might interest a Linuxhead? Right now there's a group on freebsd-doc who are putting together a book/tutorial on coming from Linux to FreeBSD. I think that this stuff should go there and not in /stand/sysinstall. Do you also want to have it install qvwm or KDE if you are coming from '95 or put in aliases for del, dir, and copy if you are coming from DOS? These are the types of customizations that users need to learn how to do. If we hold their hand too much then they won't have to learn how to customize things. I don't think that is the kind of userbase we won't right now. > Greg --- John Baldwin -- http://members.freedomnet.com/~jbaldwin/ PGP Key: http://members.freedomnet.com/~jbaldwin/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message