Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 21:14:20 -0400 From: Malartre <malartre@aei.ca> To: FreeBSD-Advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Linux=win95 FreeBSD=winNT ??? ;-) Message-ID: <3536ACEC.9B561231@aei.ca>
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It was funny to me, on another mailling list of FreeBSD.ORG, I have seen a msg who was saying than Linux do competition to win95 FreeBSD do competition to winNT So, why you dont do more attraction to win95 users? To survive, FreeBSD should not be only for server-systems. It should be for all people. So you should consult new users and understand why they dont understand your product. I've seen in the past a lot of people who buy the Walnut Creek cd-rom but who never understand how to install it! I think than you should all go on the win95 way with kde-like desktop setted up. And it should be a good thing to write a prog who will simply show(and run on win95) to win95 user how to get started with FreeBSD. I explain: It will show in *real time* a lot of exemple on how to log, how to admin the system. You know, when someone go on FreeBSD.ORG for the first time, he ask himself "what the hell is that" (sorry if its not the right translation from french!) All win95 user ask for a screenshot... Why not doing an introduction in visual basic or something like that... I think the centralisation of FreeBSD is good, it give a certain advantage on linux in some way. But that centralisation should be used *more* Creating FreeBSD User Group and doing demonstration of FreeBSD is another good way to do marketing. With who you think you will survive? server or user? I think *both* cya ;-) sorry for my bad english! Malartre -- --------------------------------------------------- malartre@aei.ca ICQ #4224434 www.aei.ca/~malartre/ FreeBSD 4 Newbies project Windows_95-B Unix FreeBSD-2.2.5-RELEASE --------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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