Reviewing Mocks Designs
Hi all, Some of you might be aware that we have the tool Phabricator to do code review. I wanted to point out an additional feature that isn't being used much now. If you have an idea for FreeBSD artwork, website designs, or other image type reviews feel free to upload them to https://reviews.freebsd.org/pholio/ and send out the link. The https://www.freebsd.org/art.html page could certainly do with more art so please go ahead! -- Eitan Adler ___ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-advocacy-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Leaving the Desktop Market
Hi all, Some of you may have seen my posts entitled Story of a Laptop User and Story of a Desktop User. For those of you who did not, it can be a worthwhile read to see what life is like when using FreeBSD as a desktop. In short, it is an educational experience. While FreeBSD can be coerced to do the right thing, it is rarely there by default and often doesn't work as well as we would expect. The following are issues I haven't brought up in the past: Battery life sucks: it’s almost as if powerd wasn't running. Windows can run for five hours on my laptop while FreeBSD can barely make it two hours. I wonder what the key differences are? Likely it’s that we focus so much on performance that no one considers power. ChromeOS can run for 12 hours on some hardware; why can't we make FreeBSD run for 16? Sound configuration lacks key documentation: how can I automatically change between headphones and external speakers? You can't even do that in middle of a song at all! Trust me that you never want to be staring at an HDA pin configuration. I'll bet you couldn't even get sound streaming to other machines working if you tried. FreeBSD lacks vendor credibility: CUDA is unsupported. Dropbox hasn't released a client for FreeBSD. Nvidia Optimus doesn't function on FreeBSD. Can you imagine telling someone to purchase a laptop with the caveat: but you won't be able to use your graphics card? In any case, half of our desktop support is emulation: flash and opera only works because of the linuxulator. There really isn't any reason for vendors to bother supporting FreeBSD if we are just going to ape Linux anyways. That is why on this date I propose that we cease competing on the desktop market. FreeBSD should declare 2014 to be year of the Linux desktop and start to rip out the pieces of the OS not needed for server or embedded use. Some of you may point to PCBSD and say that we have a chance, but I must ask you: how does one flavor stand up to the thousands in the Linux world? Eitan Adler ___ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-advocacy-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: advocacy/188031: Contradictions between the FAQ and the Handbook
FWIW the handbook is correct: -stable is a development branch. -- Eitan Adler ___ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-advocacy-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: About FreeBSD.org visitors
On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 10:29 PM, Erich Dollansky erichsfreebsdl...@alogt.com wrote: Among other things, marking actions on pages with GA labels will differentiate many of these cases from the pathological and begins to place 'our user goals' *first* as the primary definition of success. You cant manage or improve what you dont measure. I disagree here. A website is not a piece of engineering. Yes it is. Of a different type. Here is an introduction to the topic of Website Engineering: http://www.nngroup.com/articles/usability-101-introduction-to-usability/ -- Eitan Adler ___ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-advocacy-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: About FreeBSD.org visitors
On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 12:31 AM, Erich Dollansky erichsfreebsdl...@alogt.com wrote: the content of the first e-mail in this threat. It gives the impression that the site is bad because some 50% 'bounce'. Mea Culpa. My entire email was meant to be informative and provoke questions - not to say that any one stat was good or bad. I did not mean to imply that bounce = bad. I consider the front ends always as design and would never allow an engineer to do one. Let the engineers build the cars but let designers design them. Would you like to drive a car like the Tin Lizzy? Design needs to be driven by data. -- Eitan Adler ___ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-advocacy-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
About FreeBSD.org visitors
Here is an overview of the people that visit FreeBSD.org: http://people.freebsd.org/~eadler/files/Report-10.01.pdf Some takeaways: - More than half (60%) the people that come to our website leave without going to another page (called 'bouncing'). However these users spend more time than any other user per page. - Non-bouncing users had an average of just over 4 pages per session but spent about an average of 0.86/s per page. They spend most of their time on the last page. From these I think we can take away that most people come looking for something very specific. How can we fix this? Better search maybe? Improved navigation bar? Its up to you to work on this. - New users spend a lot *less* time on the site than repeat visitors. Do we need better advocacy data? Less text to confuse new users? Is this trend specific to FreeBSD or is it true across the board? - Internet Explorer is 10% of our traffic. Many of ours users use Windows as there primary desktop platform. Probably more if we include not-IE on Windows. What other insights do you see? What other data might be helpful for us? -- Eitan Adler ___ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-advocacy-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: About FreeBSD.org visitors
On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 2:23 PM, Remko Lodder re...@freebsd.org wrote: I thought we were going to see There is a lot more information around. I must ask permission for each and every report I send in public. I already asked to share some tables regarding visitor path, most used pages, etc. Also, I am not an SEO / web page analytics expert. I need more advice on what you want / need to see. -- Eitan Adler ___ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-advocacy-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: About FreeBSD.org visitors
On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 2:23 PM, Remko Lodder re...@freebsd.org wrote: On Oct 3, 2013, at 5:14 PM, Eitan Adler li...@eitanadler.com wrote: Here is an overview of the people that visit FreeBSD.org: http://people.freebsd.org/~eadler/files/Report-10.01.pdf Some takeaways: - More than half (60%) the people that come to our website leave without going to another page (called 'bouncing'). However these users spend more time than any other user per page. - Non-bouncing users had an average of just over 4 pages per session but spent about an average of 0.86/s per page. They spend most of their time on the last page. From these I think we can take away that most people come looking for something very specific. How can we fix this? Better search maybe? Improved navigation bar? Its up to you to work on this. - New users spend a lot *less* time on the site than repeat visitors. Do we need better advocacy data? Less text to confuse new users? Is this trend specific to FreeBSD or is it true across the board? - Internet Explorer is 10% of our traffic. A graph of visitor flow and falloff: http://people.freebsd.org/~eadler/files/reports/report-10.01-flow.pdf Which pages people visit and how long they stay there: http://people.freebsd.org/~eadler/files/reports/report-10.01-pages.pdf This is the same report but sorted by most time spent on page and filtered to exclude pages that match ^/cgi http://people.freebsd.org/~eadler/files/reports/report-10.01-most-time.pdf Of note: if you sort by most time spent on page you get man pages -- Eitan Adler ___ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-advocacy-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Request for advice
On 12 June 2012 14:15, Jared Barneck rhy...@yahoo.com wrote: I'm curious. When will the examination cover other architectures such as POWER/PowerPC, SPARC, and ARM? Having an exam for such architectures would get the BSDs recognition as a reliable system with the Power group. Support for ARM in the exam could increase the use of the BSDs in embedded devices; and, the same is also true for certain Power architectures. I am not sure if having a certification itself brings recognition. I used to believe that, but reality proved otherwise. I think we need a product to bring recognition. we don't just need a certificate, or a product, or any one thing. We need an ecosystem that encourages use and contribution. -- Eitan Adler ___ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-advocacy-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: [Fwd: ] The inquiry about EFF
On 10 April 2012 10:08, toredhiddenu...@tormail.net wrote: Original Message Subject: From: toredhiddenu...@tormail.net Date: Tue, April 10, 2012 1:53 pm To: i...@eff.org -- To Sir/Madam, Why are most/all software of EFF licensed under the GPL? EFF is not FSF, right? Excuse, but, are you promoting information/speech freedom or Stallmanism? Is EFF inclined towards copyleft parties or is it neutral? Excuse again, but do you think people who use BSD licenses are idiots? Google, FreeBSD, etc. If you change the license of software to BSD-like one (or MPL-like, at least) or at least all Chrome plugins, BSD community will be much happy. Thank you I think the idea of inquiring about the EFF licences to be a good one but I hardly think this email is well written. Are you a native speaker of English? The tone of the email sounds accusatory and rant-like. Perhaps something like Why are most/all software of EFF licensed under the GPL? The GPL's restrictions preclude a large number of users from freely using the software. For example the FreeBSD Project is actively phasing out the use of GPL like restrictions and Google prefers the use the 2-BSD license. Would it be possible to change the license of __(specific software)__ to a BSD-like (or even the Apache license)? Or something of a similar nature would be a nicer way to put it. -- Eitan Adler ___ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-advocacy-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
