On 06/27/12 20:50, Mr. Cromwell wrote:
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 8:14 PM, Peter Laufenberg<open...@laufenberg.ch>
wrote:
Peter Laufenberg [open...@laufenberg.ch] wrote:
Richard's not a web designer; he's a graphic designer. He put his
portfolio on blogspot after I commented that downloading a single, enormous
PDF kindof sucked, and I didn't know of a CMS that didn't suck.
It should go without saying (after everything that's already been said), but
for www.openbsd.org, technical prowess (clean and concise implementation) is
more important than graphic design skills.
Agreed.
If they can't do both, then a new template isn't even worth attempting.
Disagreed. Compare the dispatching of tasks in OpenBSD itself; there are
different experts for different areas. Vertical vs horizontal.
Anyway I'm done with this thread; Ted put it quite clearly. I don't have a
major problem with the web site other than I almost dismissed OpenBSD because
the site and docs feel 10 years old. Free- and NetBSD looked much nicer but
after I saw actual usage stats I gave OpenBSD a 2nd look and forced myself
past the floppy/tape references and found OpenBSD's philosophy which just made
sense.
In other circumstances I might have missed OpenBSD entirely, so I
instinctively don't like those red herrings, but I really don't know if more
public attention would make OpenBSD a better system. Linux's example seems to
show it just goes from bad to worse.
-- p
In all seriousness without malice (well maybe a little), I don't think
anybody really cares if a person doesn't choose an OS because of
lacking aesthetic web design. If they don't look for more beyond that,
then I doubt they'd stick with it after the installation process and
frankly who gives a shit ?
This entire discussion just reminds me of the upcoming generation and
how clueless they are. Let them have their ubuntu and frameworks
without any understanding or desire to know anything more than the
frameworks they use - good riddance, don't let the door hitcha !
Once upon a time, newbies read RFC's man pages, engaged on irc, needed
to join mailing lists for assistance.. now, they don't have to worry
about learning to make build world, compiling a kernel, hardware, or
configuring X, it's all done for them and it's sad that is what they
expect or "I'm not using it since it doesn't do everything for me". At
least 10 years ago, you were forced to dive in and get to know your OS
but really the difference between this generation and that is the fact
that we were passionate about learning more and understanding the
difference between BSD flavors or Linux distros, not just the
aesthetics of the website.
I liked the internet better when it was much smaller !
I don't think an entire generation of whipper snappers is standing on
your lawn, maybe just a few of them.
