Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 23:17:49 +0200 (CEST) From: Lukas Ertl <l.ertl@univie.ac.at> To: Martin Kotulla <martin-k@softmaker.de> Cc: 'Advocacy' <freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: TextMaker: Should we support FreeBSD at all? Message-ID: <20031007230721.D585@korben.in.tern> In-Reply-To: <3F831EA6.9040406@softmaker.de> References: <002601c38c25$e652cad0$6c01a8c0@MITERDOMAIN> <3F831EA6.9040406@softmaker.de>
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On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, Martin Kotulla wrote: > We did the port (a) because it was easy (just one source code change) > and (b) there were a couple of people telling us they'd never consider > running the Linux emulator on *BSD, and (c) because we could ... <g> Honestly, I have to say this is _really_ cool! I don't know TextMaker, and I only fire up OO when someone sends me the occasional .doc file, so I'm probably not the audience you're targetting, but just the fact that you want to support FreeBSD _and_ say that the port was easy gives me a good feeling :-) FreeBSD definitely needs more attention from commercial software vendors, and this is one step into the right direction. (Now, please all of you mail Oracle... :-) ). > That's what irritates me. TextMaker on the vast majority of systems is > MUCH faster than OpenOffice, even faster than Abiword. It should load in This would really be a reason to use TextMaker instead of OO. OO is great, because it's more or less the only available office package for *nix, but more alternatives (and faster ones) are always good. > >>5. How can we reach FreeBSD users? How can we ensure that > >>more FreeBSD users learn about our software? Well, daemonnews.org is probably a bookmark of every serious FreeBSD user, so some advertising there probably isn't bad :-) I'm not so up-to-date with who is currently packaging up FreeBSD releases, but what about bundling your software with a FreeBSD release, something like "Desktop Edition"? *ducksandruns* regards, le -- Lukas Ertl eMail: l.ertl@univie.ac.at UNIX Systemadministrator Tel.: (+43 1) 4277-14073 Vienna University Computer Center Fax.: (+43 1) 4277-9140 University of Vienna http://mailbox.univie.ac.at/~le/
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