From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat Feb 6 00:36:13 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA10936 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Sat, 6 Feb 1999 00:36:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp02.wxs.nl (smtp02.wxs.nl [195.121.6.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA10931 for ; Sat, 6 Feb 1999 00:36:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from daemon.ninth-circle.org ([195.121.56.129]) by smtp02.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.61) with ESMTP id AAABCD; Sat, 6 Feb 1999 09:36:09 +0100 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 09:44:59 +0100 (CET) Organization: Ninth Circle Enterprises From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: Nicole Harrington Subject: Re: Is there a reseller program? Cc: Laura , Hudson@xwin.nmhtech.com, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, Gregory Sutter Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 05-Feb-99 Nicole Harrington wrote: > I have to explain that FreeBSD is great, but there *IS* a learning > curve. But lets face it, do we really want to run our servers on > something for the desktop? If we really want that market, we need a > FreeBSD-desktop version. IMHO. The correct term would not be another version, but simply modularity =) And FWIW, we currently deploy three FreeBSD boxen as Desktops, five as servers, and one still undefined... Offcourse the kernel and software configuration differs... > BTW: on a side note. > At the last installa-thon the Linux group was advertised, but not there. > After a dozen of so people asked my girlfriend where the Linux people > were, she told one person that "their server crashed so they could'nt > make it, would you like to try FreeBSD instead?" Looking like a cat > stunned in oncomming headlights they turned around and left. Whoahaha! That was cruel, I love it =) But to address something one can see from the details you provide, there is also a large number of people who want Linux for it being Linux and the whole craze around. That is something we don't aspire to, I hope, for most people on the lists here care to use FreeBSD because of their experience with other OS's and see FreeBSD being better on most, if not all, fronts. --- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven join #FreeBSD on Undernet asmodai(at)wxs.nl Time is merely a residue of Reality... Network/Security Specialist *BSD: Powered by Knowledge & Know-how To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message