From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Aug 4 18:22: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from gw.caamora.com.au (jonath5.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.41.237]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B5D114CC3 for ; Wed, 4 Aug 1999 18:21:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jon@gw.caamora.com.au) Received: (from jon@localhost) by gw.caamora.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA15203; Thu, 5 Aug 1999 11:21:07 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from jon) Message-ID: <19990805112106.C13504@caamora.com.au> Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 11:21:06 +1000 From: jonathan michaels To: FreeBSD-Newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: basic info on freebsd needed... Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD-Newbies@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from MICHAEL_HEITMEIER@HP-Germany-om12.om.hp.com on Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 06:12:29PM +0200 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD gw.caamora.com.au 2.2.7-RELEASE i386 X-Mood: i'm alive, if it counts Organisation: Caamora, PO Box 144, Rosebery NSW 1445 Australia Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 06:12:29PM +0200, MICHAEL_HEITMEIER@HP-Germany-om12.om.hp.com wrote: > b) FreeBSD could be made more user friendly. i would laso like to say that adding a gui (graphical user interface) does not automatically render a computing system 'user friendly'. no matter the application level, from the operating system itself to any other minor task that might be run by the system as a whole. user freindliness relies on one basic tenent, that being the fact that the user is familiar with the task(s) at hand. dumbing down an operating system tot he same level as teh users dose nobody any favours ... sorry, this is a fact of life. regards jonathan -- =============================================================================== Jonathan Michaels PO Box 144, Rosebery, NSW 1445 Australia =========================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message