From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 21 02:41:35 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F264616A41F for ; Tue, 21 Jun 2005 02:41:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from oceanare@pacific.net.sg) Received: from salvador.pacific.net.sg (salvador.pacific.net.sg [203.120.90.219]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3279B43D58 for ; Tue, 21 Jun 2005 02:41:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from oceanare@pacific.net.sg) Received: (qmail 5228 invoked from network); 21 Jun 2005 02:40:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO maxwell6.pacific.net.sg) (203.120.90.212) by salvador with SMTP; 21 Jun 2005 02:40:57 -0000 Received: from [192.168.0.107] ([210.24.122.16]) by maxwell6.pacific.net.sg with ESMTP id <20050621024057.LJQU1233.maxwell6.pacific.net.sg@[192.168.0.107]>; Tue, 21 Jun 2005 10:40:57 +0800 Message-ID: <42B77DDC.6070906@pacific.net.sg> Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 10:39:24 +0800 From: Erich Dollansky Organization: oceanare pte ltd User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050514) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fafa Hafiz Krantz References: <20050620134841.30FF54BEAD@ws1-1.us4.outblaze.com> In-Reply-To: <20050620134841.30FF54BEAD@ws1-1.us4.outblaze.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: questions@freebsd.org, advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Explaining FreeBSD features X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 02:41:35 -0000 Hi, Fafa Hafiz Krantz wrote: >>This sounds good. How much time is left for you to write it? > > > A couple of weeks :) > > So I have a lot of time to do research. > You could subscribe to more technical lists to see how help is done and what kind of problems people face with a none-technical background. > >>FreeBSD is a typical system driven by technical people. > > Clearly its weakest point. > It is also its strongest point. FreeBSD has a very clear development paradigma. It is far off the chaotic system Linux has. > > Actually, it's not only for the article. > > I also want to create an introductory report where FreeBSD meets > the real life, and try to present it in the same professional > manner that Apple presents their Mac OS X. > This would be very helpful for FreeBSD. > Maybe some can even be used as wording for FreeBSD's new website, > which they desperately need. > Here we are again. But do not forget one thing. This technical way of doing things have to stay as it also presents FreeBSD's strongest point. > >>I know some people who were to afraid to move to FreeBSD as they >>believed installing from source is equal to being a programmer. > > > Yeah I know a lot of people like that :) > They would need two things: a very simple discription of doing things, without any ifs. a very clear message that it does not have to be Microsoft software. Erich