Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?
From: Frank Pawlak (fpawlak_at_wi.rr.com)
Date: 12/28/04
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Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 19:44:39 -0600 To: "Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg" <listsub@401.cx>, Simon Burke <simon.burke@gmail.com>
This is one of several issues that have been brought up on an almost
periodic basis for the past several years. There have been several
attempts by various folks, including a rather ambitious one by this author,
and all have died because of severe lack of interest. It has been a few
years since I have posted to this news group but my advise to you is to
give it up. You will only meet with much frustration, apathy, and
something along the lines of " if you don't like it fix it yourself".
I consider this very unfortunate, because has some commercial properties
that could well be more attractive than other OS'S. The development team
just is not interested in this issue. I have fought many a battle in years
past over marketing issues with members of the core team and others. OK,
everyone lets see you flame throwers..... Wes Petters, Jordan Hubbard, are
you out there....;-)
Frank
At 06:57 PM 12/27/2004, Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg wrote:
>Simon Burke wrote:
>[snip]
>>>2. If it wasn't for the interesting content and structure of the FreeBSD
>>> website, it would be among the less beautiful. Yes, it serves its
>>> purpose well by being simple and straight to the point. But a redesign
>>> could offer just the same -- simplicity and accuracy -- without being
>>> ugly.
>>
>>Aesthetics are not everything, the web site does what its supposed to
>>do. Also i actually like how it looks.
>>A lot of people have strong feelings about all these all singing all
>>dancing webistes. There is just no need. Keep it simple and easy to
>>navigate around thats all thats really important. If the aesthetics
>>really matter more than function to such people who use BSD then they
>>would probably be not using BSD but either windows or linux, where you
>>have a nice pretty GUI to look at all the nice pretty sites.
>
>This is where I think a lot of people simply does not understand the problem.
>Im a FreeBSD user. I like FreeBSD because it does not have all the flashy
>installers and pretty GUI's that many linux distros seems to have today.
>But still, Ive been screaming for years for someone to improve the
>website. Why?
>Anyone that has stood in front of a boardroom full of CEO's or similar and
>tried to promote the use of FreeBSD in a big organisation knows why. They
>might like all the facts about the os, the rock-solid stability, the
>lightning-fast performance and its solid reputation as a server os, but
>one look at the website and they will run screaming towards the nearest
>linux advocate instead.
>We, the users, might not care about our image, but if we want to be taken
>seriously by the rest of the world we better do something about it!
>
>[snip]
>>>4. There should be some kind of FreeBSD business card and letterhead
>>> available to all that support this project.
>>
>>I have to ask why? why would people need such things? that i just dont
>>understand
>
>Clearly, you have not tried to "sell" FreeBSD to a big corporation.
>
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