From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sun May 9 22:22:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from pokey.local.net (tcs6-09.netwalk.net [206.175.76.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50B7E14CD3 for ; Sun, 9 May 1999 22:22:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmutter@netwalk.com) Received: from insomnia.local.net (insomnia.local.net [192.168.2.3]) by pokey.local.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id BAA86037; Mon, 10 May 1999 01:21:16 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jmutter@insomnia.local.net) Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 01:24:20 -0400 (EDT) From: "James A. Mutter" Reply-To: jmutter@netwalk.com To: Nicole Harrington Cc: Wes Peters , advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, "Jordan K.Hubbard" , Dru Subject: Re: desktop, was linus on BSD In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [snipped] : : Personally IMNSHO, : If FreeBSD wants to go after the desktop market I would like to see it split :into to two different releases. Desktop and server. Why? : Everytime I tell people about FreeBSD they say "yea but Linux has more :drivers for (this cool thing that no one else ever used or came out yesterday) :and FreeBSD doesn't. : Thus, FreeBSD could use the same "here is a driver I wrote while wacked on :jolt one night for that 1970 Hardrive you can't live without" that Linux has :without detracting from the "We test everything before we commit or release any :code into the release branch. : Also, the GUI features could be enhanced without placing too much code bloat :into the server code. Plus each could be genericly tuned/optimised to satisfy :each requirment easier/better. : : I know fractioning things is often bad, but I truly belive this could help :more than it would hurt. : : Nicole Consider this, instead of a split. We offer a "base system", something similiar to the current distribution. We then offer several different "mega ports". Example: Desktop: X, window manager, several of the more popular X applications. File Server: Samba, Netware code (if it ever get's finished/stable), and plenty of sample configs + documentation on how to configure/tune each. Web Server: Apache, PostgreSQL, PHP3. Again plenty of sample configs + documentation. Just my $0.02. *plink* *plink* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message