Re: DragonFly BSD Goals/Direction

[Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado <iam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/03/2011 06:46 AM, Justin Sherrill wrote:
> My goal - Define and differentiate the DragonFly project.  NetBSD is
> about portability, OpenBSD is about security, FreeBSD is about...
> running on x86?  I don't have as direct a description there.  PC-BSD
> is about providing a desktop.  I'm oversimplifying it, but that's
> necessary for giving people an immediate "why".  I was reading an
> article that said projects need to define their own narrative, and
> tell that narrative to people outside the project so they understand
> what's being done.

Bad idea. The BSD with more success is FreeBSD and they don't use a 
"concrete description". If you ask to non-BSD users about NetBSD, they 
think "of course it runs NetBSD" or "the OS for toasters". If you ask 
about OpenBSD they think "the OS made by security fanatics, they are 
difficult people". But both ideas are incorrect. NetBSD is a very nice 
OS for other uses, like servers. OpenBSD have made a lot of work in 
areas non-security related.

The "why" should be the section "features" and "goals" in the web, not 
the description.

Just my opinion. Cheers.