From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Jul 12 1: 2:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85E1D37B400 for ; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 01:02:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from softweyr.com (softweyr.com [65.88.244.127]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 124C443E54 for ; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 01:02:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from nextgig-6.customer.nethere.net ([209.132.102.166] helo=softweyr.com) by softweyr.com with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 17Sv85-000Oqu-00; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 01:46:17 -0600 Message-ID: <3D2E8A43.AF04381@softweyr.com> Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 00:50:27 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Thierry Herbelot Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Listening to users [was Re: Package system wishlist] References: <3D2BE142.E25CA9BC@mindspring.com> <3D2CAAC1.5CF66C96@herbelot.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thierry Herbelot wrote: > > [Snip the long arguments over which new format for the packages] > > there is a interesting post by an ex-user of desktop Linux, which can > help when designing the new package system (it will have to be used by > mere mortals, not only by the elite posting on -arch) > > > (shamelessly cut&pasted from /.) > > we still have a long way to go before even computer-aware people (that > is, even people formely developping on SGI or Sun machines) can feel at > ease installing and using FreeBSD. Really? Believe it or not, I've formerly (and currently) developed on SGI and Sun machines, along with IBM, HP, DEC, Motorola, Intel, NCR, Unisys, Sequent, CCI, Arete/Arix, and even Radio Shack UNIX-ish machines, and I strongly prefer FreeBSD to any of them. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message