From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Apr 22 5:34:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from octopus.originative (originat.demon.co.uk [158.152.220.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8040D14DAD for ; Thu, 22 Apr 1999 05:34:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from paul@originative.co.uk) Received: by octopus with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2232.9) id ; Thu, 22 Apr 1999 13:29:50 +0100 Message-ID: From: paul@originative.co.uk To: dhagan@cs.vt.edu Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: FreeBSD offerings by Gateway 2000 Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 13:29:50 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2232.9) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG If people are going to send things like this to Gateway (or anyone else) please don't CC it to the advocacy group. It totally negates any positive advocacy you might achieve. > -----Original Message----- > From: Daniel Hagan [mailto:dhagan@cs.vt.edu] > Sent: 22 April 1999 13:17 > To: fitzgfri@gateway.com > Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: FreeBSD offerings by Gateway 2000 > > > Dear Sir, > > It has come to my attention that Gateway 2000 is considering > offering FreeBSD on its computer systems. My employer, the > Virginia Tech > Computer Science Department, has a Major Account with > Gateway, and we are > already a major user of FreeBSD. In the past we have had to perform > in-house installation of FreeBSD on all of our Gateway PC's (including > some of your server configurations). I would be most > interested in seeing > FreeBSD offered as a out-of-the-box option. I would also be happy to > offer my experience and knowledge of FreeBSD installations on your > hardware, if your engineers would be interested. > > We have been very satisfied with the quality of your > products and > service, as well as FreeBSD's reliability and performance. I would be > overjoyed to see Gateway officially supporting FreeBSD as an > OS option. > > Sincerely, > > Daniel Hagan > Computer Systems Engineer, Virginia Tech CS Dept. > > -- > Daniel Hagan > Computer Systems Engineer > dhagan@cs.vt.edu > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message