Date: Sat, 18 Apr 1998 16:48:41 -0400 From: Malartre <malartre@aei.ca> To: Robert Watson <robert+freebsd@cyrus.watson.org> Cc: Irving Popovetsky <irvingp@puck.nether.net>, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Screen Shot Message-ID: <353911A9.D5280828@aei.ca> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980418161700.15725M-100000@trojanhorse.pr.watson.org>
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Show all. Show unix without xFree86. Show Unix with xFree86 Show unix with kde, fvwm, Enlightenment and all that stuff With explanation... and by promothing the versatility. And put it on the first page! I think than freebsd.org should have more link on the first page. Because presently, we have to search and browse a lot before finding something I want. more like BSDi.com no? Malartre Robert Watson wrote: > 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 -- --------------------------------------------------- malartre@aei.ca ICQ #4224434 www.aei.ca/~malartre/ FreeBSD 4 Newbies project Windows_95-B Unix FreeBSD-2.2.5-RELEASE --------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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