From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Apr 16 17:32:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA27201 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Thu, 16 Apr 1998 17:32:59 -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 AAA27190 for ; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 00:32:55 GMT (envelope-from muck@ida.net) Received: from falcon.hinterlands.com (pm-pt2-5.ida.net [198.60.251.214]) by dns.mail.ida.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id SAA00485 for ; Thu, 16 Apr 1998 18:25:59 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <3536A33C.167EB0E7@ida.net> Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 18:33:00 -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: Promoting FreeBSD. References: <9804162102.AA02400@ringworld.uniscape.com> <35367D7D.9AE4092A@ibm.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Of course, then there's the argument that for servers it's silly to run > X in the first place. Agreed. It sounds like people want a "FreeBSD for Idiots." The problem with doing everything with X and a nice gui is it eats up memory and cpu cycles. You can already use sysinstall to add users and a few networking options can be changed as well. A program can be run from the command line and still be easy to use, like the port apsfilter. If someone is too dumb to type "adduser" and then follow a few simple instructions, maybe they shouldn't be calling themselves a sysamdin in the first place. But, of course, I'm not speaking from the perspective of trying to convince a company to use FreeBSD. I think FreeBSD is already easy to use. I find SCO Openserver with all it's GUI tools a bit complex, not to mention SLOW on my 486. FreeBSD performs quite well, however. Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message