Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 00:50:27 -0700 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Thierry Herbelot <thierry@herbelot.com> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Listening to users [was Re: Package system wishlist] Message-ID: <3D2E8A43.AF04381@softweyr.com> References: <3D2BE142.E25CA9BC@mindspring.com> <3D2CAAC1.5CF66C96@herbelot.com>
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Thierry Herbelot wrote: > > [Snip the long arguments over which new format for the packages] > > there is a interesting post by an ex-user of desktop Linux, which can > help when designing the new package system (it will have to be used by > mere mortals, not only by the elite posting on -arch) > > <http://members.optusnet.com.au/~knigits/articles/switched_back.html>; > (shamelessly cut&pasted from /.) > > we still have a long way to go before even computer-aware people (that > is, even people formely developping on SGI or Sun machines) can feel at > ease installing and using FreeBSD. Really? Believe it or not, I've formerly (and currently) developed on SGI and Sun machines, along with IBM, HP, DEC, Motorola, Intel, NCR, Unisys, Sequent, CCI, Arete/Arix, and even Radio Shack UNIX-ish machines, and I strongly prefer FreeBSD to any of them. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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