Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 14:53:33 -0800 From: Don Wilde <dwilde1@thuntek.net> To: jgrosch@mooseriver.com Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is there a reseller program? Message-ID: <36B8D36D.1057C696@thuntek.net> References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902021318050.7988-100000@o-o.org> <XFMail.990203093210.nicole@nmhtech.com> <19990203133655.C16919@mooseriver.com>
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Josef Grosch wrote: > [snip] > whip this into a nice spiffy product. The only stumbling block is our old > problem, the manual. We could package Greg Leheys' book without the freaking > man pages. In reality we do need another FreeBSD book. Greg can't be > carrying the whole load for us. > The big problem isn't the packaging, it's the positioning. We still haven't settled the question of what we want to market FreeBSD as. The reality is that most of what FreeBSD excels at is stuff only we techno-weenies care about. If we want to be the next Red Hat for the desktop, we need to do some serious script work and GUI front-end work, as was discussed here on -advocacy a while back. If, on the other hand, we want to position ourselves as the ultimo server system, booting Novell, Solaris and NT out the back door, then we're a lot closer. See the OpenBSD server article in today's Daemonnews. If that's the market, we're almost there. We need specific documentation with examples of SAMBA, Apache, fwtk, ppp, CVSup and Sendmail setup, a front-end manual with more pictures to confuse da users, and a documented list of applicable O'Reilly, P-H and A-W books. Targeting the (large and small) business server market would be a much better first step, playing to our strengths. -- oooOOO O O O o * * * * * * o ___ _________ _________ _________ ___==__ V_=_=_DW ===--- Don Wilde dwilde1@thuntek.net [ = = ] /oo0000oo-oo--oo-ooo---ooo-ooo---ooo-ooo---ooo-oo---oo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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