Date: Fri, 17 Apr 98 12:31:26 -0400 From: Stefanos Kiakas <stefanos@ringworld.uniscape.com> To: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Promoting FreeBSD. Message-ID: <9804171631.AA06465@ringworld.uniscape.com> In-Reply-To: <35367D7D.9AE4092A@ibm.net> References: <9804162102.AA02400@ringworld.uniscape.com> <35367D7D.9AE4092A@ibm.net>
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Don Wilde wrote:
> Valid point. I still think, however, that the most good is done by
> teaching _you_ how to write particular scripts/GUI tools for a client.
When you set up a FreeBSD server at a small company they don't want to
learn everything about FreeBSD. They want to be able to manage a few things so
they can get their work done.
> Adding and deleting users is an example of a tool that is relatively
> constant from system to system, but beyond that, things start to break
> down because there are so many different ways FreeBSD can be used. If
> the tool is general enough to work, it becomes cumbersome and worse than
> learning the text files.
The tools should be specific for a particular task.
stef
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