RE: Explaining FreeBSD features

2005-06-21 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Fafa Hafiz Krantz Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 12:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Explaining FreeBSD features Hello. Thank you all for everything so far. But I am not looking

RE: Explaining FreeBSD features

2005-06-21 Thread Warren Smith
Ted Mittelstaedt said: FreeBSD is targeted at 2 main groups of people: 1) Very knowledgeable people who are using it for personal, or in-house corporate projects. 2) Very knowledgeable people who are using it to construct turnkey systems for customers who couldn't care less what is under

Re: Explaining FreeBSD features

2005-06-21 Thread Liam J. Foy
Fafa, I've seen these kinds of efforts before and they are all generally doomed to failure. You see, the problem is that FreeBSD is not a general computer operating system product. It is a very specific product in fact. Now, the USES that FreeBSD can be put to are VERY general. BUT, do

Re: Explaining FreeBSD features

2005-06-21 Thread Liam J. Foy
On Mon(20)/Jun/05 - , Fafa Hafiz Krantz wrote: Hello. I am curious why it's so difficult to get a simple and straight forward list of FreeBSD's features, that normal people can understand? I am trying to write one of the largest articles ever to be published on www.PCWorld.no -- to only

Re: Explaining FreeBSD features

2005-06-21 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Vulpes Velox wrote: Ignorant useless users should be supported by commercial ventures, not community ones. They will just drag the community down with their weight if they don't help out. This would be the real tough one. There should also be a way to write some kind of descripton for