From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Aug 10 23:21: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from lsmls02.we.mediaone.net (lsmls02.we.mediaone.net [24.130.1.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F9C614E03; Tue, 10 Aug 1999 23:20:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gummibear@we.mediaone.net) Received: from winbox (we-24-130-60-28.we.mediaone.net [24.130.60.28]) by lsmls02.we.mediaone.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id XAA00341; Tue, 10 Aug 1999 23:20:47 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.19990810231833.007ab510@we.mediaone.net> X-Sender: gummibear@we.mediaone.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 23:18:33 -0700 To: advocacy@freebsd.org, chat@freebsd.org From: Joey Garcia Subject: Tech News Sites Need BSD Education Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hey all! So everyday I go through my routine of reading all the Tech News sites. I have noticed that more and more news sites are getting to be Linux centric. I'm sort of fed up with the Linux-hoopla. All I read is "Linux that, Linux this". I swear, people are going to start to believe that "Linux" is the *only* Open Source operating system project around. They're gonna start to believe that "Linux" is the *only* stable OS around. There is one site (www.osopinion.com) that has promise of being a decent site. It usually has interesting stuff to read, but it's mostly Linux centric because the people that submit their articles are Linux people. I'm hoping that this can be changed. I am not the most articulate person, and I'm not that great at writing Reviews or Tech articles but I can at least try. I'm hoping that you can try too. It will only take a bit of your time to write something for this site mentioning all the merits and stregths in the BSD community and BSD software. I'm thinking of submitting a "Unix History" article emphasizing the birth of BSD and evolution of BSD up to the presetnt open projects such as FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD. Through all it's good times and bad times, mentioning all the great software that came about the BSD project and from the CSRG. After I'm done with that, I'm hoping to write software reviews on FreeBSD machines. Reviews on how great the FreeBSD ports collection is, and how easy it is to install and maintain FreeBSD (not to mention how fast and stable it is). But, I need your help. Anyone willing to help me with this project? Anyone willing to send their reviews? Also, it seems that they advertise for free there. I'm wondering if we can put banners on their site. I'll have to look more into that. Now this isn't about anti-Linux, this is about pro-education. This is about pro-BSD!!! We're not here to bash Linux, but to show the stregths of the BSD operating system. We must educate the people about the BSD alternatives. We must let them know that Linux isn't the only game in town. Now are you with me? Joey To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message