From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed Aug 7 12: 1:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E566937B401 for ; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 12:01:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ancmail1.state.ak.us (dced.state.ak.us [146.63.92.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 568F743E3B for ; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 12:01:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian_raynes@dnr.state.ak.us) Received: from dnr.state.ak.us ([127.0.0.1]) by ancmail1.state.ak.us (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id H0HLZ900.EFA; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 10:57:09 -0800 Message-ID: <3D516E60.8C75586@dnr.state.ak.us> Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2002 11:00:48 -0800 From: Brian Raynes X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Lucas , freebsd advocacy Subject: Re: leading questions for interview? References: <20020807131102.A48105@blackhelicopters.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Michael Lucas wrote: > > Guys, > > I'm going to be interviewed for a Net radio talk show, Computer Beat > (www.compbeat.com) for my newly-released FreeBSD book. > > Much to my surprise, I have the opportunity to offer the interviewer > some questions that I would like to be asked. While I have a couple > boring, basic questions, I'm sure there are good questions out there. > > I'd like to take the opportunity to do some general FreeBSD advocacy, > as fifteen minutes is a long time to talk about a book. ("It's good! > Buy it!") I am drawing a blank on questions that would be of interest > to a general audience. Everything I can think of is stuff like "How > is SMP/MAC/KSE coming along, which would be of interest to people in > the BSD crowd but not beyond. > > The audience is computer literate, but not necessarily BSD-literate. > > Any ideas, anyone? How about this, as it tends to get a lot of comment/response on daily daemonnews and the like: What is the state/future of Java support for FreeBSD? Note that I don't do Java development, so it's merely curiosity, but java _apps_ have been pretty useful to me in other contexts. You could also mention or answer what your favorite apps for common uses are: Favorite word processor, text editor (if different), web browser, cd-burning front-end, desktop environment (KDE, GNOME, etc.). You've probably covered some of this in your other writings, which I've enjoyed BTW, but your answers might provide insight into what runs (best/at all) on FreeBSD. It's not a mystery to us, but might be to some non-BSD people. Brian Raynes To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message