Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 22:24:47 -0400 From: "Francisco Reyes" <reyesf@newsguy.com> To: "Bill/Carolyn Pechter" <pechter@shell.monmouth.com>, "Scott I. Remick" <scott@computeralt.com> Cc: "freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: FreeBSD advocacy Message-ID: <199807300224.TAA25928@newsguy.com>
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On Wed, 29 Jul 1998 18:19:20 -0400 (EDT), Bill/Carolyn Pechter wrote: >> I think FreeBSD's PR team needs to send some emails, make some calls, and >> start kicking some major butt ;) I recently sent a couple of email to some writers from PC week. I got a response from one of them, but basically he did not seem interested. The problem with just "sending emails" is that this is just a notch up from Spam. We need to find ways to do a little better. What I have been trying to do is to find recent articles from writhers about Linux and send them a little info on BSD and see if they may be interested in doing an article. >I've been waiting to see just one name vendor go FreeBSD. >I really think a common binary and installer for Free/Net/OpenBSD might >work if we could unify enough to get this done in the name of commercial >apps. We'd have to lock down this format to NOT change, though. That would be good for all 3 BSDs, but I don't know if this may be possible. After all there were enough philosophical differences for these 3 OS to be created so I don't know if the politics could be worked out. For those more technically oriented: Are the BSDs binary compatible? If not how difficult would it be? If the same package/port mechanism could be used would also be great. I don't know how we ended up with 3 BSDs, but it would be great if at least some parts of the efforts from all 3 groups could be combined. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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