Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 10:39:24 +0800 From: Erich Dollansky <oceanare@pacific.net.sg> To: Fafa Hafiz Krantz <fteg@london.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Explaining FreeBSD features Message-ID: <42B77DDC.6070906@pacific.net.sg> In-Reply-To: <20050620134841.30FF54BEAD@ws1-1.us4.outblaze.com> References: <20050620134841.30FF54BEAD@ws1-1.us4.outblaze.com>
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Hi, Fafa Hafiz Krantz wrote: >>This sounds good. How much time is left for you to write it? > > > A couple of weeks :) > > So I have a lot of time to do research. > You could subscribe to more technical lists to see how help is done and what kind of problems people face with a none-technical background. > >>FreeBSD is a typical system driven by technical people. > > Clearly its weakest point. > It is also its strongest point. FreeBSD has a very clear development paradigma. It is far off the chaotic system Linux has. > > Actually, it's not only for the article. > > I also want to create an introductory report where FreeBSD meets > the real life, and try to present it in the same professional > manner that Apple presents their Mac OS X. > This would be very helpful for FreeBSD. > Maybe some can even be used as wording for FreeBSD's new website, > which they desperately need. > Here we are again. But do not forget one thing. This technical way of doing things have to stay as it also presents FreeBSD's strongest point. > >>I know some people who were to afraid to move to FreeBSD as they >>believed installing from source is equal to being a programmer. > > > Yeah I know a lot of people like that :) > They would need two things: a very simple discription of doing things, without any ifs. a very clear message that it does not have to be Microsoft software. Erich
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