From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 16 10:50:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from buffnet4.buffnet.net (buffnet4.buffnet.net [205.246.19.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C58F814C03 for ; Wed, 16 Jun 1999 10:50:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shovey@buffnet.net) Received: from buffnet11.buffnet.net (buffnet11.buffnet.net [205.246.19.55]) by buffnet4.buffnet.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA18960; Wed, 16 Jun 1999 13:48:19 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from shovey@buffnet.net) Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 13:48:19 -0400 (EDT) From: Steve Hovey To: Victor Carranza Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Amusing: LinuxCountry site runs on FreeBSD :) In-Reply-To: <3767E1B4.8F4A5288@BitSmart.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I think people are less afraid of linux because they hear about it more, and have more, easier ways to get their hands on it (whether actually easier or preceived as such) What freebsd would need to do something similar, is someone to wrap it all in complete idiot proofing, AND aggressively market it. On Wed, 16 Jun 1999, Victor Carranza wrote: > Hi! > Just wanted to share this: I have read recent postings about the IMP > web-based e-mail package. It seemed like a very interesting addition for > my system, so I went to take a look at the http://www.horde.org/imp > site, then entered the "IMP Sites" area and found that 3 sites are > registered as using IMP under FreeBSD. I was surprised to find > www.linuxcountry.com listed! Then, I further confirmed that, using the > "queso" utility (from the ports), www.linuxcountry.com is reported as > using "FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD". > > Of course, they don't credit FreeBSD anywhere in their site, but it > seems like one more victory in the FreeBSD vs. Linux camp :) > > Cheers, > > -Victor > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message