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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!marge.eaglequest.com!news.tacom.army.mil!news.webspan.net!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Suggested package for next release (xless) Date: Wed, 02 Oct 1996 23:17:47 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 24 Message-ID: <32535A8B.695678E2@FreeBSD.org> References: <52sjn8$4oi@uuneo.neosoft.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) To: Conrad Sabatier <conrads@neosoft.com> Conrad Sabatier wrote: > I *love* FreeBSD. I very seldom use anything else now (occasionally > switch over to Win95, mainly only to pay my bills through Checkfree under > Quicken). Still, I think it *could* be made less intimidating for the new > user. Sure, no argument there at all. Just also bear in mind that for *any* value of "user friendly", that assertion will always be true. :-) > I realize you guys are mainly concerned with improving the code itself, > but nonetheless, more time and thought could be put into the "packaging" > (no pun intended), to make it more attractive to newcomers. Absolutely. However, bear also in mind that this is some of the most thankless work of all and we're entirely volunteer driven around here. If nobody volunteers to do the work of "improving the packaging" then it just doesn't happen. Do you know that "Smokey the Bear" commercial where he turns to you and says in his gruff, stern-but-friendly voice: "Only YOU can prevent forest fires!" Well, "Only YOU can make FreeBSD more attractive to newcomers!" :-) -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project