Date: Sat, 18 Apr 1998 16:24:27 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson <robert@cyrus.watson.org> To: Irving Popovetsky <irvingp@puck.nether.net> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Screen Shot Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980418161700.15725M-100000@trojanhorse.pr.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980418153007.5116B-100000@puck.nether.net>
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So one unfortunate thing about the AfterStep and Enlightenment screen shots is as follows: a number of people I showed them to indicated that the objectified women (scantily clad) weren't so very encouraging when it came to selecting a desktop for use in a business. They were more interested in a professional-looking interface than this :). Microsoft, for example, does not advertise their Scantily-Clad Women Desktop Theme as a major feature of their windows products. While it would be unrealistic to expect that people do not use X-Windows for this kind of thing, attempting to advertise a product as a competitor with WindowsNT as a business server platform might benefit from a little less of this :). On Sat, 18 Apr 1998, Irving Popovetsky wrote: > Some of the most impressive screenshots that I have personally seen have > been on the webpages of various Window Managers: > > www.enlightenment.org (enlightenment wm) > www.afterstep.org (afterstep) > www.kde.org (the K Desktop environment) > > in their screenshots gallieries. While most of these screenshots were > taken on Linux boxen, its still just XFree86 that they are running, and I > have been able to achieve similar on my FreeBSD box. > > But some of those look real pretty, and make just as great of an argument > for us as they do for the linux people, maybe even a better one :) > > -Irving > > On Sat, 18 Apr 1998, Adrian T. Filipi-Martin wrote: > > > Date: Sat, 18 Apr 1998 15:22:29 -0400 (EDT) > > From: "Adrian T. Filipi-Martin" <atf3r@cs.virginia.edu> > > Reply-To: Adrian Filipi-Martin <adrian@virginia.edu> > > To: Malartre <malartre@aei.ca> > > Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG > > Subject: Re: Screen Shot > > > > On Sat, 18 Apr 1998, Malartre wrote: > > > > > Hey, I have seen a lot of people who where wanting screen shot. > > > Why not giving them the screen shot on www.freebsd.org? > > > > > > Like a link on the first page to "what freebsd look like" > > > > > > Unix seems strange to new user... > > > > Well, I doubt a single screen shot coulw convey much of anything. > > There are just too many things that could be on a FreeBSD display. What > > would it be: X, emacs, the console, quake2, etc.? > > > > I suppose one rather impressive image involving FreeBSD is the > > Toshiba Libretto picture from the PAO project page. I just love that the > > X11 is runnig on FreeBSD o a computer that is not as deep as the SUN mouse > > next to it. > > > > Adrian > > -- > > adrian@virginia.edu ---->>>>| If I were stranded on a desert island, and > > System Administrator --->>>| I could only have one OS for my computer, > > Neurosurgical Visualization Lab ->>| it would be FreeBSD. Think about it..... > > http://www.nvl.virginia.edu/ ->| http://www.freebsd.org/ > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message > > > > > -Irving Popovetsky > ANS Communications - BigDial Operations Assistant > Pioneer High School - Webmaster > > grok: /grok/, var. /grohk/ vt. [from the novel "Stranger in a Strange > Land", by Robert A. Heinlein, where it is a Martian word meaning literally > `to drink' and metaphorically `to be one with'] The emphatic form is `grok > in fullness'. 1. To understand, usually in a global sense. Connotes > intimate and exhaustive knowledge. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message > Robert N Watson ---- Carnegie Mellon University http://www.cmu.edu/ Trusted Information Systems http://www.tis.com/ SafePort Network Services http://www.safeport.com/ robert@fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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