Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 20:51:27 -0700 From: Don Wilde <dwilde1@ibm.net> To: Joey Garcia <bear@pacificnet.net> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: An idea for promoting FreeBSD Message-ID: <353EBABF.EE2F9038@ibm.net> References: <Pine.GSO.3.96.980422112250.5564A-100000@statix.cs.uoregon.edu> <353E3B82.2D7540FE@ibm.net> <353E5DF5.32197EF8@naxs.com> <3.0.1.32.19980422194222.006a9b80@pacificnet.net>
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Joey Garcia wrote: > Hmmm...I seem to be rambling a bit. Basically, what I wanted to know is > what path are we (the freebsd community) going to take FreeBSD. Are we > going to take the Server path, the Workstation path, or both? I'd prefer > both of course. We've all seen that FreeBSD is a phenomenal server, let's > show (let prospective users know and all) that it can be a kick butt > Workstation as well. But how are we gonna do that? Any ideas? > > Joey Garcia Hey, Bear, you're making my point. We want it to be equally configurable as all of the above. It _is_ a kick-ass workstation. I blow peoples' minds when they see my personal station at work, and I haven't even started to get fancy with it. As far as _easy_ to configure, I think it's getting better with every release. Little question marks like default configurations that show silly error messages are slowly being addressed. I just got my 2.2.6 CD's and tomorrow's the day to start deployment. I'm going to make a determined effort to write down all the gotchas I experience with 2.2.6 so I can script the changes I make. Easy? Might as well say building a car from scratch is easy. Perhaps I should have used 'rocketship' instead of 'keg of dynamite', but the idea is that this is the most awesomely powerful and complete package of computer software tools ever made available to anyone in the world, and it's free to be copied a zillion times. That's the message to get across. I don't need drugs to get high on the possibilities of what can be done with these CD's and some dedicated effort to learn how to work with the code! btw, trim your cc's. Everybody on there's reading the -advocacy post, I think. ;) We don't want -advocacy to become just another -chat channel. --> Don To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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