From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Apr 17 08:04:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA07005 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 08:04:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from out1.ibm.net (out1.ibm.net [165.87.194.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA06929 for ; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 15:04:25 GMT (envelope-from dwilde1@ibm.net) Received: from ibm.net (slip-32-100-79-236.ca.us.ibm.net [32.100.79.236]) by out1.ibm.net (8.8.5/8.6.9) with ESMTP id PAA21174; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 15:03:22 GMT Message-ID: <35376EF9.5121678D@ibm.net> Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 08:02:17 -0700 From: Don Wilde Reply-To: dwilde1@ibm.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Jason C. Wells" CC: Dan Janowski , Das Devaraj , freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What else goes with it (was Re: New name?) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is so incredibly important and pertinent to -advocacy. Jason C. Wells wrote: > > On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Dan Janowski wrote: > > > > Why does someone else want to use it? Do we tell people > > it is awsomely powerful for connecting to the Internet? > > This is a question of applications that run on the platform. There is a > good point here. Why does Joe User want to run FreeBSD? > > The website has a link on the front page to "applications". Then it > takes the user to a blurb and then the ports collection. > > Hmmm ports.... What is a port? > > Then this large list of apps with cryptic names is given. > > Hmmm plan9.... What is plan9? What is a shell? What is fvwm2? > > Now, let me say this. The website as I have discussed it so far is > completely sensible and sane _to me_, Joe User might not think so. > > Mr. Jankowski's comments are supported by the website. Look at that > "blurb" about the apps FreeBSD runs. It is all very heavy nerd stuff. > > Perhaps a rewrite of this page to be less nerdy would be in order. YES! Unfortunately, it appears to be automagically generated from the actual ports collection. Those _useless_to_a_BSD_newbie descriptions are part of the .DESCR file in each port. What we need to do is talk to the -ports committer about that. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message