Explaining FreeBSD features

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

Fafa Hafiz Krantz wrote:
>>This sounds good. How much time is left for you to write it?
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> A couple of weeks :)
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> So I have a lot of time to do research.
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You could subscribe to more technical lists to see how help is done and 
what kind of problems people face with a none-technical background.
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>>FreeBSD is a typical system driven by technical people.
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> Clearly its weakest point.
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It is also its strongest point.

FreeBSD has a very clear development paradigma. It is far off the 
chaotic system Linux has.
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> Actually, it's not only for the article.
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> I also want to create an introductory report where FreeBSD meets
> the real life, and try to present it in the same professional
> manner that Apple presents their Mac OS X.
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This would be very helpful for FreeBSD.

> Maybe some can even be used as wording for FreeBSD's new website,
> which they desperately need.
> 
Here we are again.

But do not forget one thing. This technical way of doing things have to 
stay as it also presents FreeBSD's strongest point.
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>>I know some people who were to afraid to move to FreeBSD as they 
>>believed installing from source is equal to being a programmer.
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> Yeah I know a lot of people like that :)
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They would need two things:

a very simple discription of doing things, without any ifs.

a very clear message that it does not have to be Microsoft software.

Erich