Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 08:02:17 -0700 From: Don Wilde <dwilde1@ibm.net> To: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu> Cc: Dan Janowski <danj@3skel.com>, Das Devaraj <das@netcom.com>, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What else goes with it (was Re: New name?) Message-ID: <35376EF9.5121678D@ibm.net> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980414210149.1324B-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu>
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This is so incredibly important and pertinent to -advocacy. Jason C. Wells wrote: > > On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Dan Janowski wrote: > > > > Why does someone else want to use it? Do we tell people > > it is awsomely powerful for connecting to the Internet? > > This is a question of applications that run on the platform. There is a > good point here. Why does Joe User want to run FreeBSD? > > The website has a link on the front page to "applications". Then it > takes the user to a blurb and then the ports collection. > > Hmmm ports.... What is a port? > > Then this large list of apps with cryptic names is given. > > Hmmm plan9.... What is plan9? What is a shell? What is fvwm2? > > Now, let me say this. The website as I have discussed it so far is > completely sensible and sane _to me_, Joe User might not think so. > > Mr. Jankowski's comments are supported by the website. Look at that > "blurb" about the apps FreeBSD runs. It is all very heavy nerd stuff. > > Perhaps a rewrite of this page to be less nerdy would be in order. YES! Unfortunately, it appears to be automagically generated from the actual ports collection. Those _useless_to_a_BSD_newbie descriptions are part of the .DESCR file in each port. What we need to do is talk to the -ports committer about that. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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