From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sun May 21 5:31:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3E1E37B68C; Sun, 21 May 2000 05:31:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com (p54-dn02kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [211.0.245.119]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN/) with ESMTP id VAA20408; Sun, 21 May 2000 21:30:21 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <3927CA82.A07E7465@newsguy.com> Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 20:37:38 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Terry Lambert Cc: Rahul Siddharthan , Brett Glass , Wes Peters , Greg Lehey , chat@FreeBSD.ORG, FreeBSD advocacy list Subject: Re: Book chapter on BSD published in Salon References: <200005182036.NAA21308@usr08.primenet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Terry Lambert wrote: > > His history is not 100% correct, and it's going to potentially > hurt BSD in the long run to have lots of people believing it > because it's now "common knowledge". The author answered comments on Slashdot and said he would make corrections. In other words, if you send corrections to him, they are likely to be accepted. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@another.bsdconspiracy.org "Sentience hurts." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sun May 21 15:45:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from obie.softweyr.com (obie.softweyr.com [204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 545C137B8A6 for ; Sun, 21 May 2000 15:45:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (homer.softweyr.com [204.68.178.39]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA25136; Sun, 21 May 2000 16:45:27 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <392867A9.D1B117E5@softweyr.com> Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 16:48:09 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joe Warner Subject: Re: Thanks! References: <3927FC85.A7075D70@uswest.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Joe Warner wrote: > > Wes, > > Hi, my name is Joe Warner and I am a member of the Salt Lake Linux > Users Group (SLLUG). I just wanted to thank you for the excellent > presentation at the SLLUG meeting and the free software (FreeBSD 3.4). > Thanks to you, I'm really impressed with FreeBSD and it's many > capabilities. I don't know why but the way FreeBSD is set up, just > makes more sense to me. I don't know if this is just because of my > prior experience with Linux or not. I found FreeBSD easy to install and > extremely easy to add applications and run upgrades. Especially with > the ports collection. So far, I've only been able to load it on an old > NEC VERSA 2400CD laptop with a 1gig hard disk and not much RAM and it > seemed to run pretty good, except I haven't been able to get the PCMCIA > modem to work. Hopefully, they'll give me a faster/better machine to > load it on at work. > Anyway, thanks again! I don't expect a response from you because I > know how busy a guy you are. Thanks for your hard work and > inspiration! 8^} Glad to be of help. I feel the same way, FreeBSD feels much more like a cohesive whole than Linux, which has flashes of brilliance interspersed with slices of not-so-good. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sun May 21 22:40:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from majordomo2.umd.edu (majordomo2.umd.edu [128.8.10.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 018C437BB1C for ; Sun, 21 May 2000 22:40:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from howardjp@wam.umd.edu) Received: from rac10.wam.umd.edu (root@rac10.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.150]) by majordomo2.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA10023 for ; Mon, 22 May 2000 01:40:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rac10.wam.umd.edu (sendmail@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rac10.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id BAA10663 for ; Mon, 22 May 2000 01:40:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rac10.wam.umd.edu (howardjp@localhost) by rac10.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA10658 for ; Mon, 22 May 2000 01:40:44 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200005220540.BAA10658@rac10.wam.umd.edu> X-Authentication-Warning: rac10.wam.umd.edu: howardjp owned process doing -bs To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD: Serving the World Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 01:40:43 -0400 From: James Howard Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Back in January, I sent something to the lists saying I was going to send it to InformationWeek. Well, they never got back to me so I sent it to OS Opinion. And it is there now. It is called, "FreeBSD: Serving the World," and can be seen here: http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/JamesHoward/JamesHoward1.html Also, I think the slogan "Serving the World" rules, how much bribery does it take to get your design/slogan on a T-shirt? I mean a picture of the Daemon with the Earth on a platter with that phrase...that would rule :) Screaming, "It's a cookbook," Jamie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue May 23 9:36:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.100.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7643837B82F for ; Tue, 23 May 2000 09:36:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA24300 for ; Tue, 23 May 2000 12:36:45 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 12:36:58 -0400 To: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Mention of BSD on ArsTechnica Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG There is a short blurb on FreeBSD at: http://www.arstechnica.com/ in the section called "Linux for grown-ups". It doesn't say a lot, as it's mainly a pointer to the interview with Jordan H at http://www.gnulinux.com/ . Still, what it does say is favorable. --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue May 23 9:48:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mail.surf1.de (mail.surf1.de [194.25.165.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9E3B37B71F for ; Tue, 23 May 2000 09:48:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alex@cichlids.com) Received: from cichlids.com (p3E9C114B.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [62.156.17.75]) by mail.surf1.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA28295 for ; Tue, 23 May 2000 18:47:58 +0200 Received: from cichlids.cichlids.com (cichlids.cichlids.com [192.168.0.10]) by cichlids.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71004AC2C for ; Tue, 23 May 2000 18:48:50 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from alex@localhost) by cichlids.cichlids.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA03353 for advocacy@freebsd.org; Tue, 23 May 2000 18:48:17 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from alex) Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 18:48:17 +0200 From: Alexander Langer To: advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD embedded Message-ID: <20000523184817.A3298@cichlids.cichlids.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i X-PGP-Fingerprint: 44 28 CA 4C 46 5B D3 A8 A8 E3 BA F3 4E 60 7D 7F X-Verwirrung: Dieser Header dient der allgemeinen Verwirrung. Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello! In the German magazine c't they tested NAS devices. Both, Intel and Maxtor, use FreeBSD as their embedded OS for their NAS solutions :-) Alex -- I need a new ~/.sig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue May 23 17:12:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from obie.softweyr.com (obie.softweyr.com [204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFBD437B822 for ; Tue, 23 May 2000 17:12:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (ip41.salt-lake-city9.ut.pub-ip.psi.net [38.31.167.41]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA01361; Tue, 23 May 2000 18:12:33 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <392B1EFC.C6CCE498@softweyr.com> Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 18:14:52 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alexander Langer Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD embedded References: <20000523184817.A3298@cichlids.cichlids.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Alexander Langer wrote: > > Hello! > > In the German magazine c't they tested NAS devices. > > Both, Intel and Maxtor, use FreeBSD as their embedded OS for their NAS > solutions :-) Yeah, been known and posted on daily.daemonnews.org for a long time. Intel OEM's the "StorageStation" from Maxtor. A link to the article if on-line, or a mention of it if not, would be great fodder for daily. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue May 23 17:23:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mail.surf1.de (mail.surf1.de [194.25.165.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D4F137BA6C for ; Tue, 23 May 2000 17:23:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alex@cichlids.com) Received: from cichlids.com (p3E9D38EE.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [62.157.56.238]) by mail.surf1.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id CAA27153; Wed, 24 May 2000 02:23:09 +0200 Received: from cichlids.cichlids.com (cichlids.cichlids.com [192.168.0.10]) by cichlids.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D794AC30; Wed, 24 May 2000 02:23:59 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from alex@localhost) by cichlids.cichlids.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id CAA04623; Wed, 24 May 2000 02:23:22 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from alex) Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 02:23:22 +0200 From: Alexander Langer To: Wes Peters Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD embedded Message-ID: <20000524022322.A4517@cichlids.cichlids.com> References: <20000523184817.A3298@cichlids.cichlids.com> <392B1EFC.C6CCE498@softweyr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <392B1EFC.C6CCE498@softweyr.com>; from wes@softweyr.com on Tue, May 23, 2000 at 06:14:52PM -0600 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 44 28 CA 4C 46 5B D3 A8 A8 E3 BA F3 4E 60 7D 7F X-Verwirrung: Dieser Header dient der allgemeinen Verwirrung. Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thus spake Wes Peters (wes@softweyr.com): > > Both, Intel and Maxtor, use FreeBSD as their embedded OS for their NAS > > solutions :-) > Yeah, been known and posted on daily.daemonnews.org for a long time. HA! See. I'm up-to-date again ;-) Well, I was surprised and happy, since two products used FreeBSD and only one Linux :-P > Intel OEM's the "StorageStation" from Maxtor. A link to the article > if on-line, or a mention of it if not, would be great fodder for > daily. No, it's not online, only print-version. Well, it's in the German c't 11/2000, article called "NASses Netzwerk". Article is on page 200, FreeBSD is mentioned on p 202, including a picture of the login-screen :-P Alex -- I need a new ~/.sig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue May 23 18:19:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rz.fh-wilhelmshaven.de (mail.rz.fh-wilhelmshaven.de [139.13.25.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 843F337BA9E for ; Tue, 23 May 2000 18:18:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ohoyer@fbwi.fh-wilhelmshaven.de) Received: from fettesau.stuwo.fh-wilhelmshaven.de (stuwopc5.stuwo.fh-wilhelmshaven.de [139.13.209.5]) by mail.rz.fh-wilhelmshaven.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id DAA06615 for ; Wed, 24 May 2000 03:18:49 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <4.1.20000524030621.027c9820@mail.rz.fh-wilhelmshaven.de> X-Sender: ohoyer@mail.rz.fh-wilhelmshaven.de X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 03:07:50 +0200 To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org From: Olaf Hoyer Subject: Re: FreeBSD embedded In-Reply-To: <20000524022322.A4517@cichlids.cichlids.com> References: <392B1EFC.C6CCE498@softweyr.com> <20000523184817.A3298@cichlids.cichlids.com> <392B1EFC.C6CCE498@softweyr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 02:23 24.05.00 +0200, you wrote: >Thus spake Wes Peters (wes@softweyr.com): > >> > Both, Intel and Maxtor, use FreeBSD as their embedded OS for their NAS >> > solutions :-) >> Yeah, been known and posted on daily.daemonnews.org for a long time. > Hi! There were IIRC four devices tested. Two used F BSD, one Linux, and the fourth one other kiind of (modified) *BSD... Regards Olaf Hoyer P.S. Sorry, but lent this copy to some good chap, so I cannot quote... -------- Olaf Hoyer www.nightfire.de mailto:Olaf.Hoyer@nightfire.de FreeBSD- Turning PC's into workstations ICQ:22838075 Liebe und Hass sind nicht blind, aber geblendet vom Feuer, dass sie selber mit sich tragen. (Nietzsche) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message