From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 29 17:26:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61D8637B400 for ; Mon, 29 Jul 2002 17:26:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from c3po.artlogix.com (sense-mcglk-240.oz.net [216.39.168.240]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E74E343E3B for ; Mon, 29 Jul 2002 17:26:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mcglk@artlogix.com) Received: from ralf.artlogix.com.artlogix.com (ralf.artlogix.com [192.168.0.4]) by c3po.artlogix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F69F1A947; Mon, 29 Jul 2002 17:26:11 -0700 (PDT) To: JWright295@aol.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dear FreeBSD, References: <17.2bf3c52f.2a7709c9@aol.com> From: Ken McGlothlen Date: 29 Jul 2002 17:26:21 -0700 In-Reply-To: <17.2bf3c52f.2a7709c9@aol.com> Message-ID: <86k7neoyc2.fsf@ralf.artlogix.com> Lines: 54 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG JWright295@aol.com writes: | To whom it may concern: | I am the President of ACM at Mississippi State University. I would like to | invite someone from your company to do a presentation at MSU for ACM. The | topic of the presentation would be up to the presenter, but we would be | interested in any presentation on any of the following topics: | 1. Linux Installation (one of the main barriers keeping people from using | Linux) | 2. Advanced Linux Operations | 3. Programming in Linux | 4. Networking Linux boxes | If no one from your company is available to do a presentation, I will probably | do the presentation myself on Linux installation. However, more people would | come if you have a representative from your company doing the presentation. | If I do the presentation myself, I would appreciate it if you could send some | "Powered By Linux" stickers and Linux installation CDs. | Thank you. | Sincerely, | James Wright | ACM President | P.O. Box 6991 | MSU, MS 39762 My dear James: First, congratulations on your appointment as President of ACM's MSU chapter. It concerns me that you may have been misinformed about what FreeBSD is. While I do not speak for the organization proper (such as it is), please allow me to try to correct these misapprehensions. * FreeBSD is not a company per se. It is an open-source operating system, supported by organizations such as the FreeBSD Foundation and others. In and of itself, it does not have the resources to provide for presentations. However, there may be a local FreeBSD administrator in your area that might be willing to help. If there's one on the list who's willing, he or she might speak up; otherwise, we can't really help you. * FreeBSD is not Linux. Linux is an entirely different operating system. Linux and FreeBSD share a heritage and a lot of software (as do other Unix-style operating systems such as OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris, and so forth), but they are very different. FreeBSD's heritage is based on the Berkeley System Distribution of Bell Labs's UNIX; Linux was written by a loose confederation led by Linus Torvalds. * We have no "Powered by Linux" or Linux installation CDs to offer, because as I said, FreeBSD is not a Linux-based operating system. I'm sure we wish you the best of luck on your presentation, and we hope that at some point, you take a look at FreeBSD in greater depth. Thanks for writing. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message