From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Jul 22 10:48:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from magnesium.net (toxic.magnesium.net [204.188.6.238]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3C92915587 for ; Thu, 22 Jul 1999 10:48:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from unfurl@magnesium.net) Received: (qmail 91532 invoked by uid 1001); 22 Jul 1999 17:47:07 -0000 Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 10:47:07 -0700 From: Bill Swingle To: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MSNBC: The Net's stealth operating system Message-ID: <19990722104706.A91438@dub.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: ; from Adrian Filipi-Martin on Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 09:07:36AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp > > > > I've only skimmed it so far, but it seems like a pretty nice article. Nice > > work, Wes Peters and Matthew Fuller for the quotes, too. > > > > Kris Just as a side note, this chunk of the article is very accurate: When the best, brightest and most suspicious minds from the computer industry gathered in Las Vegas for the DEF CON trade show earlier this month, Linux-taunting by BSD sophisticates wasn't at all subtle. And when one speaker announced that BSD CD-ROMs were being given away at the show, but Red Hat had declined to give away Linux CDs, there was outright jeering. Has Linux has become too mainstream and lost its appeal among "Ubergeeks"? Mke Smith and I went to DefCon this year and were totally surprised to find _zero_ linux vendors there. We had some awesome defcon/freebsd shirts that sold like hotcakes and we gave out the first disk in the 3.1 set and sold the first disk in the 3.1 for a dollar. By the second day it was hard to not walk among the 3000 or so ppl there and not seea FreeBSD shirt and we had given out almost 1000 discs. In comparision to the OpenBSD folks selling everything at full price (and not doing to well at it) and the non-existant Linux vendors I think FreeBSD came out looking really good. Several of the speakers on the second day gave their talks wearing one of our shirts :) Just thought I'd share. :) -Bill -- -=| Bill Swingle - unfurl@dub.net - unfurl@freebsd.org - bill@cdrom.com -=| "Computers are useless. They can only give you answers" Pablo Picasso To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message