From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Apr 23 08:21:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA15250 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Thu, 23 Apr 1998 08:21:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from post.mail.demon.net (post-10.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id IAA15184 for ; Thu, 23 Apr 1998 08:21:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marko@uk.radan.com) Received: from radan.demon.co.uk ([158.152.75.22]) by post.mail.demon.net id aa1024897; 23 Apr 98 15:03 GMT Organisation: Radan Computational Ltd., Bath, UK. Phone: +44-1225-320320 Fax: +44-1225-320311 Received: from beavis.uk.radan.com (beavis [193.114.228.122]) by uk.radan.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with SMTP id QAA04737; Thu, 23 Apr 1998 16:02:51 +0100 Received: from uk.radan.com (gppsun4) by beavis.uk.radan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA16482; Thu, 23 Apr 98 16:02:50 BST Message-Id: <353F5806.1924E7E6@uk.radan.com> Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 16:02:31 +0100 From: Mark Ovens Organization: Radan Computational Ltd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4m) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: "Jason C. Wells" Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Demo & freebsd-*lite* References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jason C. Wells wrote: > > On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Malartre wrote: > > > You can do a lot of promotion without having to do a lite version. > > I explain: You should do a Demo in Java or for win95 (Visual Basic) who > > I like this. A simple multimedia thing could do the trick in mpeg or > quicktime format. > But this wouldn't show off two of FreeBSD's greatest assets, it's speed & power. Microsloth puts out lots of this type of demo. Now whilst that is beneficial to MS because users see all the whizz-bang new features but _can't_ see that this years version is 20% slower than last years version. But for FreeBSD that would be a big disadvantage because users wouldn't be able to appreciate its speed & power and, if they copied it to their HD, see that a 32-bit multi-tasking, multi-user, multi-everything OS runs much faster on an old 486-dx66 that Win95 on a Pentium with tons of RAM (How much faster does X start up than Win95 when booted to DOS and then typing "win"?) -- Mark Ovens *====================================* CNC Apps Engineer | One of the main causes of the fall | Radan Computational Ltd | of the Roman Empire was, that | mailto:marko@uk.radan.com | lacking a zero, they had no way of | | indicating the successful | | termination of their C programs | *====================================* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message