Excellent Job!

yuval levy yuval_levy at yahoo.com
Wed Oct 5 21:51:28 PDT 2005


Hey Yuval, can you forward this to the
freebsd-www at FreeBSD.org list?
I can't make all these improvements on my own, so
please repost to the
list.  Thanks for the feedback.

- Murray

On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 11:49:30PM -0400, Yuval Levy
wrote:

>> Murray Stokely wrote:
>> 
>
>>> >Please visit http://www.FreeBSD.org and let us
know what you
>>> >think.
>>> >
>
>> Excellent job!
>> 
>> The website needed a facelift and it got a really
beautiful one. The 
>> homepage now looks uncluttered, even though most of
the original content 
>> still fits in there. A masterpiece of clarity and
design.
>> 
>> I am missing _one_ thing on the homepage: the ports
collection. In my 
>> opinion it should be featured prominently. It is
the single most 
>> important reason that made me switch from Red Hat
Linux to FreeBSD, and 
>> I am sure it is a feature that makes FreeBSD stand
out in every OS 
>> comparison.
>> 
>> The community page looks great. FreeBSD has so far
attracted a community 
>> of mostly programmers. I would suggest adding a
wiki there so that 
>> mainstream users can start adding and sharing
knowledge on an informal 
>> basis. The mailing lists are great and searchable
but daunting for a 
>> newbie. There are a number of sites out there
dedicated to FreeBSD but 
>> they often offer conflicting advice. Having
something at the source 
>> would help demistify FreeBSD to the newbie.
>> 
>> Regards from a former newbie.
>> Yuval Levy



		
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