Date: Fri, 31 Oct 1997 23:25:29 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: jkb@best.com (Jan Koum) Cc: Ruslan@shevchenko.kiev.ua, grog@lemis.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: FreeBSD GUI, revisited (was Re: FreeBSD slogan/advert ideas) Message-ID: <199710312325.QAA23834@usr01.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971031045526.18518B-100000@shell6.ba.best.com> from "Jan Koum" at Oct 31, 97 05:10:26 am
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> > 2. We have not GUI admin interface for FreeBSD, > > so newbaies will preffer other systems. > > This is a win in our side. I find it a plus not needing a gui and > beeng on the console for the important tasks. As for newbies? Thats why > there is NT, so they won't bother us. Just kidding. I think you should > learn the OS from the bottom up. First you learn shell, kernel, file > system, io, vm, etc and then only you go to X/GUI. I know some "NT Admins" > who don't even suspect that NT can be used in the DOS mode (or shell, or > emulator, or whatever you call that scary little rectangular DOS looking > like prompt). The whole point is that you will never get the users who believe you should *not* have to use the OS, only the *applications* that run *on* the OS. Your requirements list makes it look like you must be a computer scientist to run a decent OS. Your bar is too high for users. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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