Date: Sat, 18 Apr 1998 13:16:05 -0700 From: Don Wilde <dwilde1@ibm.net> To: Remy NONNENMACHER <remy@synx.com> Cc: "Karl M. Joch" <k.joch@kmjeuro.com>, "freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: salesman is thinking..... Message-ID: <35390A05.16B5482E@ibm.net> References: <Pine.A32.3.91.980418165208.26071A-100000@rs1>
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Remy NONNENMACHER wrote: > > Writting GPL'ed software is democracy and freedom. Building a consistent GUI > federating independant software needs (dictature?) and constraints. > > Someone feeling OK for becoming the big chief ? I don't think we need or want to go in that direction. The idea is to create a port which loads a good starter system with some conservative specs, i.e., fvwm rather than fvwm2, 640x480, etc., and then runs a script which -- perhaps visibly -- configures the text files and explains what it's doing and why. The idea is that we only want to create a demo of ONE WAY you might set up a FreeBSD machine, and then lead them into the brave new world of changing it the FreeBSD way. If somebody wants to create a different demo system, let them! All I want to do is create that good first impression. I don't want to change the basic operation, because it's just what I need. I don't want GUI Admin tools as anything other than a port option. It would ruin the system to hook them into the core distribution! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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