Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 09:18:36 -0600 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> To: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> Cc: Marian Hettwer <MH@kernel32.de> Subject: Re: Getting attention (was Re: Where is FreeBSD going?) Message-ID: <3FFC234C.1010807@centtech.com> In-Reply-To: <3FFC22CD.40201@centtech.com> References: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1040106163408.87887d-100000@fledge.watson.org> <3FFBD7B4.8010207@kernel32.de> <20040107125842.4d970782.joao@bowtie.nl> <3FFC09D5.5080700@kernel32.de> <20040107155435.213fd21b.joao@bowtie.nl> <3FFC22CD.40201@centtech.com>
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Eric Anderson wrote: >> >> I've always considered the efforts made by Mr. Lucas, writing >> articles and such, quite impressive.. So maybe we just need a >> whole lot of writing .. HOWTO's, handbook translations, plain articles. >> > If FreeBSD (or any *BSD's for that matter) want to get a larger > foothold, and userbase, I think the key is the corporate market, and > the key to that is visible support/resource lines, and visible "quick > response" to serious bugs. > >> Also i hear a lot of people complaining that the VA-software sponsored >> sites like slashdot and such are extremely anti-BSD. Cant say im a >> regular visitor of those sites so i wonder if that is a full truth. >> >> btw. does anybody know of a url where a decent comparison in techniques >> used in Linux / BSD's / Windows / ... it so be viewed ? (non sponsored >> ofcourse) >> >> > A lot of slashdotter's and such are anti-bsd on paper - meaning they > whine and try to poke fun at the bsd's, but those same people (in my > view, and many other peoples'), are not really taken seriously by any > real developers or members of projects. They are mostly the > hide-behind-the-keyboard types. Slashdot is the digital/online > equivalent of The Enquirer, except the Enquirer is actually funny, and > Slashdot is just pathetic. Ok - that came across kind of harsh - please understand I have a sarcastic sense of humor.. :) Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Systems Administrator Centaur Technology All generalizations are false, including this one. ------------------------------------------------------------------
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