From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed Jul 29 19:25:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA11664 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Wed, 29 Jul 1998 19:25:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from newsguy.com (perry.co.pathlink.com [207.211.168.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA11652 for ; Wed, 29 Jul 1998 19:25:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from reyesf@newsguy.com) Received: (from reyesf@localhost) by newsguy.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA25928; Wed, 29 Jul 1998 19:24:58 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199807300224.TAA25928@newsguy.com> From: "Francisco Reyes" To: "Bill/Carolyn Pechter" , "Scott I. Remick" Cc: "freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG" Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 22:24:47 -0400 Reply-To: "Francisco Reyes" X-Mailer: PMMail 98 Professional (2.01.1600) For Windows 95 (4.0.1111) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: FreeBSD advocacy Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 29 Jul 1998 18:19:20 -0400 (EDT), Bill/Carolyn Pechter wrote: >> I think FreeBSD's PR team needs to send some emails, make some calls, and >> start kicking some major butt ;) I recently sent a couple of email to some writers from PC week. I got a response from one of them, but basically he did not seem interested. The problem with just "sending emails" is that this is just a notch up from Spam. We need to find ways to do a little better. What I have been trying to do is to find recent articles from writhers about Linux and send them a little info on BSD and see if they may be interested in doing an article. >I've been waiting to see just one name vendor go FreeBSD. >I really think a common binary and installer for Free/Net/OpenBSD might >work if we could unify enough to get this done in the name of commercial >apps. We'd have to lock down this format to NOT change, though. That would be good for all 3 BSDs, but I don't know if this may be possible. After all there were enough philosophical differences for these 3 OS to be created so I don't know if the politics could be worked out. For those more technically oriented: Are the BSDs binary compatible? If not how difficult would it be? If the same package/port mechanism could be used would also be great. I don't know how we ended up with 3 BSDs, but it would be great if at least some parts of the efforts from all 3 groups could be combined. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message