Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 16:02:31 +0100 From: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com> To: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Demo & freebsd-*lite* Message-ID: <353F5806.1924E7E6@uk.radan.com> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980422190902.206C-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu>
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Jason C. Wells wrote:
>
> On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Malartre wrote:
>
> > You can do a lot of promotion without having to do a lite version.
> > I explain: You should do a Demo in Java or for win95 (Visual Basic) who
>
> I like this. A simple multimedia thing could do the trick in mpeg or
> quicktime format.
>
But this wouldn't show off two of FreeBSD's greatest assets, it's speed
& power.
Microsloth puts out lots of this type of demo. Now whilst that is
beneficial to MS because users see all the whizz-bang new features but
_can't_ see that this years version is 20% slower than last years
version.
But for FreeBSD that would be a big disadvantage because users wouldn't
be able to appreciate its speed & power and, if they copied it to their
HD, see that a 32-bit multi-tasking, multi-user, multi-everything OS
runs much faster on an old 486-dx66 that Win95 on a Pentium with tons of
RAM (How much faster does X start up than Win95 when booted to DOS and
then typing "win"?)
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