From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Apr 22 5:42:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from octopus.originative (originat.demon.co.uk [158.152.220.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E71715166 for ; Thu, 22 Apr 1999 05:41:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from paul@originative.co.uk) Received: by octopus with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2232.9) id ; Thu, 22 Apr 1999 13:37:20 +0100 Message-ID: From: paul@originative.co.uk To: jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, chrisc@vmunix.com Cc: advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Gateway computers Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 13:37:19 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2232.9) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > -----Original Message----- > From: Jordan K. Hubbard [mailto:jkh@zippy.cdrom.com] > Sent: 22 April 1999 06:57 > To: Chris Coleman > Cc: jkh@freebsd.org; advocacy@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Gateway computers > > > > I spoke with my contact at gateway today. He said he has > left messages > > with Bob Bruce about the status of the FreeBSD > certification, but has > > received no word. > > You should have him talk to me - Bob's notorious for returning phone > calls rarely, if ever. :-) My phone number is in my finger entry > (finger jkh@freebsd.org) or look me up in Concord, CA information. > > > He has collected ~60 e-mail related to FreeBSD for gateway, > with some > > possible duplication. However he is planning on grouping > them up and > > sending them to corporate headquarters along with the > certification stuff. > > Sounds good to me. > > > He has distributed several CDs to Gateway, and when > customers call up and > > ask for Linux, he tells them that FreeBSD is available and > gives them a > > CD. > > We just got the Permedia II card back from XiG, who patched their X > server to actually work with it. Once we get this back from them, we > can fulfill the original terms of the agreement by providing Gateway > with a FreeBSD + Xaccel CDROM that they can either buy at the > XiG price > (since we can't pass that bit along for free, XiG would be upset :) > or a FreeBSD + XFree86 CDROM that they can provide to those who don't > wish to have the super-duper X server. Wouldn't XiG be willing to give away *one* copy of Xaccel in order for Gateway to certify their machines? It would be very shortsighted of them not to. "Gateway, certified for FreeBSD + Xaccel" would be quite a coup for them wouldn't it? I'm sure they'd much prefer it to "Gateway, certified for FreeBSD + XFree86" ! Paul Richards Originative Solutions Ltd To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message