From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Dec 23 19:23:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9639C14C0E; Thu, 23 Dec 1999 19:23:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id NAA22559; Fri, 24 Dec 1999 13:53:50 +1030 (CST) Date: Fri, 24 Dec 1999 13:53:50 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: James Howard Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.org, FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: Byte/Russia Message-ID: <19991224135350.K1316@freebie.lemis.com> References: <19991223112615.X1316@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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