From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 7 07:19:05 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEECB16A4D0 for ; Wed, 7 Jan 2004 07:19:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from otter3.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2070343D31 for ; Wed, 7 Jan 2004 07:19:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from centtech.com (neutrino.centtech.com [10.177.171.220]) by otter3.centtech.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id i07FIt6T092155; Wed, 7 Jan 2004 09:18:56 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <3FFC234C.1010807@centtech.com> Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 09:18:36 -0600 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eric Anderson References: <3FFBD7B4.8010207@kernel32.de> <20040107125842.4d970782.joao@bowtie.nl> <3FFC09D5.5080700@kernel32.de> <20040107155435.213fd21b.joao@bowtie.nl> <3FFC22CD.40201@centtech.com> In-Reply-To: <3FFC22CD.40201@centtech.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: advocacy@freebsd.org cc: Marian Hettwer Subject: Re: Getting attention (was Re: Where is FreeBSD going?) X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 15:19:06 -0000 Eric Anderson wrote: >> >> I've always considered the efforts made by Mr. Lucas, writing >> articles and such, quite impressive.. So maybe we just need a >> whole lot of writing .. HOWTO's, handbook translations, plain articles. >> > If FreeBSD (or any *BSD's for that matter) want to get a larger > foothold, and userbase, I think the key is the corporate market, and > the key to that is visible support/resource lines, and visible "quick > response" to serious bugs. > >> Also i hear a lot of people complaining that the VA-software sponsored >> sites like slashdot and such are extremely anti-BSD. Cant say im a >> regular visitor of those sites so i wonder if that is a full truth. >> >> btw. does anybody know of a url where a decent comparison in techniques >> used in Linux / BSD's / Windows / ... it so be viewed ? (non sponsored >> ofcourse) >> >> > A lot of slashdotter's and such are anti-bsd on paper - meaning they > whine and try to poke fun at the bsd's, but those same people (in my > view, and many other peoples'), are not really taken seriously by any > real developers or members of projects. They are mostly the > hide-behind-the-keyboard types. Slashdot is the digital/online > equivalent of The Enquirer, except the Enquirer is actually funny, and > Slashdot is just pathetic. Ok - that came across kind of harsh - please understand I have a sarcastic sense of humor.. :) Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Systems Administrator Centaur Technology All generalizations are false, including this one. ------------------------------------------------------------------