Subject: Re: Why run NetBSD
To: Antti Kantee <pooka@iki.fi>
From: Hubert Feyrer <feyrer@rfhs8012.fh-regensburg.de>
List: netbsd-advocacy
Date: 12/12/1999 05:23:38
thanks, I've updated the page.
- Hubert
On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, Antti Kantee wrote:
> On Sat Dec 11 1999 at 04:08:08 +0100, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
>
> > After I had to come up with some arguments for NetBSD, I've put them
> > together in some web page, see
> > http://www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/why-run-netbsd.html.
> >
> > I'd appreciate any input. Right now I have:
>
> Perhaps you might want to decrease the amount of smileys in the text, it
> makes the text look rather non-serious, although everybody knows we're
> serious as hell. Another thing worth considering is not ending
> statements in '...', but rather stating the fact: "WE RULE!", PERIOD
>
> > * First OS to include USB support for mice, keyboards, modem, mass
> > storage devices (USB ZIP!), ...
>
> This is slightly ambiguous, it doesn't clearly state that we were to
> first to have any kind of USB support at all.
> "First OS to support USB. Support includes mice, keyboards....." could
> be better?
>
> > * DVD ROM and RAM support
> > * Working LFS and FFS with softdep support for fast, high performance
> > filesystems
>
> These two I like. clear, unarguable (well..) facts
>
>
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