> Mirian wote:
> I like to think that NetBSD as having
> [O'Riley's] kind of reputation, at least 
> among people possessed of clue.

Too true...

Ah, but that's the point! Many out there come
looking for clues. They come to a web site,
any web site, mainly hoping to harvest such
clues.

I do not suggest changing the site. I only
hope to suggest a much wider propagation of
one of of its more "clue-packed" pages...in 
the interests of a wider advocacy.

Those [by definition] "clueless" onese are not 
all either foolish or stupid. Myself, for  
instance. As regards NetBSD I still own to a
high quotient of cluelessness. Still and yet...

Armed with only an AS with honors in ET, I have
done design work on robots. And I am, by many
accounts, relentlessly inquisitive: I currently
work as a test engineer for a German automotive 
chassis design facility, I hold an amateur radio 
license, class extra, KY8D, and one of my hobies
involves a commercial contract with Hugo and 
Nebula lauriate Jack Vance to translate certain
of his science fiction masterpieces into Esperanto.
Some few of these fields may possibly correspond to
"zones of cluelessness" for others. Never have I
held it it against them.

I settled upon NetBSD for good and sound reasons,
the same good and sound reasons I once purchased
an Amiga 2000 (which I still own). When the Amiga
came out, it was, beyond doubt, superior. Still and
all, it did them no good. Microsoft claims to have
invented the desktop (Amiga called it the "workbench").
And Apple claims to have invented multimedia (Amiga
called it "desktop video"). Amiga was first, Amiga
was better (then). But Amiga is now gone and ever
so surely being forgotten.

One should not disparage image. Such lofty disdain
too often prooves costly.

Image IS important. Microsoft constantly put down
AmigaOS (versus Windows 3.1) saying it was only
just a "game machine" (because of 3 main processors
and 4096 colors versus the 80286 and 16-color VGA).

Being better is not enough. Folks have to know all about
it. A great many folks have to know all about it. In 
fact,
most of the folks have to know all about it.

The total newbie visiting netbsd.org for the first
time will obtain but few clues as to what they may 
expect to actually DO with NetBSD from the main page. It
is still a good idea to propagat that very fine,
visually striking, NetBSD-in-Action page.

Gan Starling
Kalamazoo MI USA

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