Date: Sun, 28 Sep 1997 16:01:28 +0200 From: Jeremy Lea <reg@shale.csir.co.za> To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Round and round (was: DNS vs. GUI? (was: Microsoft brainrot...)) Message-ID: <19970928160128.65314@shale.csir.co.za> In-Reply-To: <29270.875431739@time.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Sun, Sep 28, 1997 at 12:28:59AM -0700 References: <19970928053655.29651@functional.com> <29270.875431739@time.cdrom.com>
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On Sun, Sep 28, 1997 at 12:28:59AM -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > So I guess it really comes down to in the end is this: What do we have > the will to do and what practical (e.g. existing or truly > implementable) technologies can we use to do it with? Answer those > two questions and you'll accomplish far more than a simple re-hash of > the whole GUI-for-UNIX debate which we've had at least 50 times in > these FreeBSD mailing lists. ;-) Having been mostly lurking on these lists for a while now, it would seem to me that we need some sort of frequently raised issues (FRI) document. There are a number of topics that seem to have a life of their own, and a number of things which people keep raising (especially Terry ;). Although it would have to be a minimum of work... This posting of yours would be a really good start for a "GUI vs Command line" topic. "NT vs Unix", "FreeBSD vs Linux", "FS layering" and "perl/TCL" are others. We could list all of the peoples views, based on a cut and paste from e-mail into an HTML page (or even Docboook, but that might be a bit more work). Then we put a introduction on the top. These debates always seem to "end" with someone saying "You're all missing the point... the real issue is..." so we put a nice summary of what people consider the real issues at the bottom, along with a "What can I do?" section, much like your posting. Then when someone comes with a FRI, you point them at the web page and then let them submit their comments... or if they've now changed their minds, diffs against their last comments. Just an idea... in theory it would save a lot of e-mail, but then so do FAQ's, in theory. -Jeremy -- .sig.gz
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