From owner-freebsd-doc Fri Jul 12 07:11:40 1996 Return-Path: owner-doc Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA13778 for doc-outgoing; Fri, 12 Jul 1996 07:11:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nightmare.dreamchaser.org ([207.40.47.18]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA13768; Fri, 12 Jul 1996 07:11:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nightmare (nightmare.dreamchaser.org [206.230.42.65]) by nightmare.dreamchaser.org (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id IAA25424; Fri, 12 Jul 1996 08:09:29 -0600 Message-ID: <31E65C98.7A79CB24@dreamchaser.org> Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 08:09:28 -0600 From: Gary Aitken X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b4 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" CC: doc@freebsd.org, www@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Anyone up for a little triage on http://www.freebsd.org/about.html? References: <14029.837166189@time.cdrom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-doc@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > I don't know about you folks, but that text's been looking a little > shopworn to me lately. The problem is that everything I've attempted > to write in replacement has swung wildly from dry techiespeak to sheer > marketing fluff and I've simply thrown my hands up on getting this one > right. I can't quite find the correct balance, but I'm sure I'd know > it if I saw it! :-) Any volunteers? > > The overall style of our current version isn't so bad so much as is > the content - I don't think that trumpeting "PRE-EMPTIVE > MULTITASKING!" is, for example, quite as effective as citing some more > FreeBSD specific feature (e.g. focus on its areas of strength in > comparsison to other UN*Xen, not only DOS/Windows as the current one > does). I'm confused... That page looks like a 2 paragraph description of the server to me. Nothing about pre-emptive multitasking is even mentioned... -- Gary Aitken garya@ics.com (business) garya@dreamchaser.org (personal)