How to improve FreeBSD (was: Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?)

[Achilleus Mantzios]

O Giorgos Keramidas έγραψε στις Jul 4, 2005 :

> On 2005-07-04 11:11, Achilleus Mantzios <achill at matrix.gatewaynet.com> wrote:
> >
> > "``eudaemonia'' is the state of being helped or protected by a kindly
> > spirit. As a rule, UNIX systems seem to be infested with both daemons
> > and demons."
> >
> > That could be a daemon of -STABLE branch, but in reality...
> >
> > No, eudaimonia (how its spelled in greek), it's almost
> > similar to euphoria, meaning the state where the good daimons
> > are in control, in general it means happiness, not safety.
> >
> > So eudaimonia, rather describes the -CURRENT instead!
> 
> Although I agree about the meaning of "eudaemonia", the link and
> association with STABLE and/or CURRENT is at least far-fetched :P
> 
> Can we all move on and do better things that argue about demons,
> daemons, evil or good spirits, the religious beliefs of everyone,
> and other such not-really-beneficial-for-FreeBSD things?
> 
> If some of you want to help us improve FreeBSD, then stop arguing
> about religious and spiritual things and prove you can do something
> with a "real" impact on the current stateof FreeBSD, such as:
> 
> 	- Submit a fix for one of the existing bugs
> 	- Improve an existing feature
> 	- Add new features
> 	- etc.

Since when in the advocacy/chat lists do people
discuss about anything of the above you mentioned?

If an OS wants to show (off) that "manly", then
leave only 2 lists : -hackers, and -current,
(ok and -stable for the incompetent poor users).

If, on the other hand, by this way, you want
to express some "call for arms" for potential FreeBSD
kernel/port developers,(fishing them from these "light" lists),
then i doubt you choose the right way.

> 
> Regards,
> 
> Giorgos
> 

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-Achilleus