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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!serv.hinet.net!news.uoregon.edu!hunter.premier.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uuneo.neosoft.com!conrads From: conrads@dolphin.neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Suggested package for next release (xless) Date: 4 Oct 1996 01:01:22 GMT Organization: What? Me, organize? Lines: 30 Message-ID: <531nl2$8op@uuneo.neosoft.com> References: <52sjn8$4oi@uuneo.neosoft.com> <32535A8B.695678E2@FreeBSD.org> Reply-To: conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier) NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.27.165.134 In article <32535A8B.695678E2@FreeBSD.org>, Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@FreeBSD.org> wrote: >Conrad Sabatier wrote: > >> I realize you guys are mainly concerned with improving the code itself, >> but nonetheless, more time and thought could be put into the "packaging" >> (no pun intended), to make it more attractive to newcomers. > >Absolutely. However, bear also in mind that this is some of the most >thankless work of all and we're entirely volunteer driven around here. >If nobody volunteers to do the work of "improving the packaging" then it >just doesn't happen. Do you know that "Smokey the Bear" commercial >where he turns to you and says in his gruff, stern-but-friendly voice: >"Only YOU can prevent forest fires!" > >Well, "Only YOU can make FreeBSD more attractive to newcomers!" :-) Point taken. In fact, you're not the only one who's mentioned this to me. I'm gonna have to start reading up on porting apps, etc. in the handbook. Pretty cool, actually, to think I might actually be able to contribute something somewhere. In fact, one of the main reasons I wanted to get into FreeBSD was to rekindle my long-dormant inner hacker. :-) It's a great environment for that! -- Conrad Sabatier | conrads@neosoft.com | Eschew obfuscation. http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads |