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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