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List:       freebsd-hackers
Subject:    FreeBSD GUI, revisited (was Re: FreeBSD slogan/advert ideas)
From:       Terry Lambert <tlambert () primenet ! com>
Date:       1997-10-31 23:25:29
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>    >     2. We have not GUI admin interface for FreeBSD,
>    >        so newbaies will preffer other systems.
> 
> 	This is a win in our side. I find it a plus not needing a gui and
> beeng on the console for the important tasks. As for newbies? Thats why
> there is NT, so they won't bother us. Just kidding. I think you should
> learn the OS from the bottom up. First you learn shell, kernel, file
> system, io, vm, etc and then only you go to X/GUI. I know some "NT Admins"
> who don't even suspect that NT can be used in the DOS mode (or shell, or
> emulator, or whatever you call that scary little rectangular DOS looking
> like prompt).

The whole point is that you will never get the users who believe you
should *not* have to use the OS, only the *applications* that run
*on* the OS.

Your requirements list makes it look like you must be a computer scientist
to run a decent OS.  Your bar is too high for users.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.

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