Date: Fri, 24 Dec 1999 13:53:50 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: James Howard <howardjp@wam.umd.edu> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.org, FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Byte/Russia Message-ID: <19991224135350.K1316@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.10.9912232115220.14104-100000@rac8.wam.umd.edu> References: <19991223112615.X1316@freebie.lemis.com> <Pine.GSO.4.10.9912232115220.14104-100000@rac8.wam.umd.edu>
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On Thursday, 23 December 1999 at 21:26:17 -0500, James Howard wrote: > On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> In fact, it's a translation of "UNIX or BSD?" from the June Daemon >> News (http://www.daemonnews.org/199906/d-advocate.html). You'll note >> my name at the end on page 81. > > In the copy in my hand, page 81 is smack dead in the middle of an article > on Perl (cannot miss Larry Wall and his shirts...). You'll note my name > at the end of page 77. :) > >> The other main articles are a translation of "The Cathedral and the >> Bazaar" on page 16 and "ISDN Networking" on page 56. > > Those are articles on bug reports and notebooks, respectively. I think we > are talking about two different issues. I think I said it was in the > November issue. Which one do you have? Ah, I was beginning to think I got something wrong here. Yes, this is the October issue. >> One thing that does impress me about the magazine is the technical >> detail, which I haven't seen in a US magazine for decades. They also >> give a surprising amount of attention to UNIX. The magazine is 96 >> pages, including all ads, and 22 of them are about UNIX. There's an >> almost total lack of Microsoft (just a single, albeit rather long, >> article about setting up TCP/IP on Windoze). Very refreshing. > > Indeed, I was freaking astouned by that. There were some other articles > on Linux, which of course, I cannot make out, except for "Linux" stuck in > here and there. Definetly my kind of people. :) Right. Well, there could be more BSD :-) Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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