From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 28 05:38:16 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BD34106566B for ; Sat, 28 Apr 2012 05:38:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Received: from wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl [89.206.35.99]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABA138FC0C for ; Sat, 28 Apr 2012 05:38:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q3S5cBNI008817; Sat, 28 Apr 2012 07:38:11 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Received: from localhost (wojtek@localhost) by wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) with ESMTP id q3S5cAup008814; Sat, 28 Apr 2012 07:38:10 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2012 07:38:10 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar To: Jerry McAllister In-Reply-To: <20120427203117.GA2055@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> Message-ID: References: <20120427203117.GA2055@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender passed SPF test, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.7 (wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl [127.0.0.1]); Sat, 28 Apr 2012 07:38:11 +0200 (CEST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Andy Young Subject: Re: Ways to promote FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2012 05:38:16 -0000 >> and are working not toying around - use FreeBSD. > > Not really true and kind of a poor attitude. possibly but this is what i observe. > Yes. many people needing high performance already use FreeBSD, but > there are lots of services that could benefit from FreeBSD who are > not very aware of it. They may have heard the name, and even know > that it is an OS, but have heard it passed off as a non-entity in > the field and do not know better than that. Those would not benefit from FreeBSD or anything else. 99.9% of computer users are actually toying with them.