From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 22 05:19:35 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id FAA22898 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 22 May 1996 05:19:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from longstreet.larc.nasa.gov (longstreet.larc.nasa.gov [128.155.25.82]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id FAA22889; Wed, 22 May 1996 05:19:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from branson@localhost) by longstreet.larc.nasa.gov (8.6.11/8.6.11) id IAA28170; Wed, 22 May 1996 08:22:14 -0400 From: Branson Matheson Message-Id: <199605221222.IAA28170@longstreet.larc.nasa.gov> Subject: Re: BSD vs Linux To: gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG (Gary Palmer) Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 08:22:14 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Questions) In-Reply-To: <8507.832715438@palmer.demon.co.uk> from "Gary Palmer" at May 21, 96 10:50:38 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > available in the archives ... my mail to the list was sent on friday > or saturday). Since the FAQ is an official document of the FreeBSD > Project, myself and others feel it would not be wise to make such > comparisons in an official publication of the Project. (If you look in > the archive, I gave detailed reasons, but basically is that if we make > such a comparison, someone, somewhere will take offense at it and > start slagging us off. There is no such thing as a fair, unbiased, > treatment of this area, which is often considered a nearly religous > issue, and treated with much fanatacism by some). Hrm... how about this... since the web wite is donated by WC anyways... why not use the writeup that is in the catalog? We could put in BIG letters that this is the opnion of WC and not the FreeBSD camp ( although I am not sure who wrote the original ). > > Mabey even a more direct route? And re: A more direct route... I was thinking that having sub links under "The FreeBSD Documentation Project" with FAQ and/or handbook may make it easier for the average layman to find when surfing ( and then posting using the mailto: ) so that they can find their own answers to their questions. The Number of repeated questions lately has just about tripled... including and not limited to : BSD vs. Linux ( a favorite )? Is SMP ( Dual Processors ) supported? Will FreeBSD run on my new octium machine with 14 MB... etc. etc.. etc... etc.... So the focus of this thread is " Is there a way to better inform visitors to the Home Pages so that they might find the answers without posting to the questions list? " ( biggie .. ain't it ;-) -branson -branson -- ======================================================================== branson matheson | branson@widomaker.com Ferguson SysAdmin | http://widomaker.com/~branson