From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 1 16:01:21 2004 Return-Path: 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 94E2416A4CF for ; Mon, 1 Mar 2004 16:01:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from zeus.acuson.com (ac17860.acuson.com [157.226.71.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 883A443D3F for ; Mon, 1 Mar 2004 16:01:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from DavidJohnson@Siemens.com) Received: from mvaexch02.acuson.com ([157.226.230.209]:1535) by zeus.acuson.com with esmtp (Exim 4.14) id 1AxxLC-0006pP-3k; Mon, 01 Mar 2004 16:00:54 -0800 Received: by mvaexch02.acuson.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2657.72) id <15HGJVQM>; Mon, 1 Mar 2004 15:52:32 -0800 Received: from Siemens.com (dhcp-46-107.acuson.com [157.226.46.107]) by mvaexch01.acuson.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2657.72) id 15H19HG3; Mon, 1 Mar 2004 15:51:20 -0800 From: Johnson David To: Peter Kieser Message-ID: <4043CE46.5080707@Siemens.com> Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 15:59:02 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <000301c3ffd8$88fb8670$9c01a8c0@diamond> In-Reply-To: <000301c3ffd8$88fb8670$9c01a8c0@diamond> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanner: exiscan for exim4 (http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan/) *1AxxLC-0006pP-3k*HN4pgCt5jzY* cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: my thoughts on FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 00:01:21 -0000 Peter Kieser wrote: > I started using FreeBSD when I was 12 (so i've been using it for about 5 > years), and have enjoyed it immensely. Do not change what's proven to > attract it's user base. This discussion has been brought up time and > time again, and we've always decided to stick with the current way of > doing things. I don't think anyone wants to remove what's attracted the current user base. We don't have to do things the "Linux" way. For example, while sysinstall definitely needs an update, we still NEED a text mode admin tool that is simple and efficient to use. Even if a GUI installer or admin tool comes along, no one is arguing that the text mode tools need to vanish to make way for it. David