Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 08:09:28 -0600 From: Gary Aitken <garya@dreamchaser.org> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: doc@freebsd.org, www@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Anyone up for a little triage on http://www.freebsd.org/about.html? Message-ID: <31E65C98.7A79CB24@dreamchaser.org> References: <14029.837166189@time.cdrom.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > I don't know about you folks, but that text's been looking a little > shopworn to me lately. The problem is that everything I've attempted > to write in replacement has swung wildly from dry techiespeak to sheer > marketing fluff and I've simply thrown my hands up on getting this one > right. I can't quite find the correct balance, but I'm sure I'd know > it if I saw it! :-) Any volunteers? > > The overall style of our current version isn't so bad so much as is > the content - I don't think that trumpeting "PRE-EMPTIVE > MULTITASKING!" is, for example, quite as effective as citing some more > FreeBSD specific feature (e.g. focus on its areas of strength in > comparsison to other UN*Xen, not only DOS/Windows as the current one > does). I'm confused... That page looks like a 2 paragraph description of the server to me. Nothing about pre-emptive multitasking is even mentioned... -- Gary Aitken garya@ics.com (business) garya@dreamchaser.org (personal)
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?31E65C98.7A79CB24>