Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 09:32:10 -0500 (CDT) From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com> To: Malte Lance <malte@webmore.com> Cc: kris@airnet.net, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fw: Your Article "Freeware: The Heart & Soul of the Internet" Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980410092932.22132D-100000@shell.futuresouth.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19980410161317.03672cfc@cyclone.degnet.baynet.de>
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[redirecting followups to -chat] On Fri, 10 Apr 1998, Malte Lance wrote: > At 08:42 10.04.98 -0500, Kris Kirby wrote: > >Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > >> > >> FREEBSD - THE POWER TO SERVE > >> FreeBSD: developed for years in secret in California, painstakingly > >> started from 4.4BSD-Lite, is now revealed to the world. FreeBSD > >> 2.2.6-RELEASE, with the power to run the largest web or FTP server, the > > > >Should say PC-based, IMHO. > > "the environmental completness for highest-productive SW-development" ooOOoo, I like it; it sounds great while saying absolutely nothing. The perfect press relief material. > >> flexibility to be easily customized to ANY task, and the simplicity to be > >> used sucessfullly by anyone, is now available on CD-ROM from Walnut Creek > >> CDROM (http://www.cdrom.com/titles/os/freebsd.htm), or by FTP from > >> ftp.freebsd.org. 2.2.6-RELEASE offers many features implemented over a > >> rock solid base, stabler and more powerful even than many commercial > > The commercial OSes i know are far from being as stable as FreeBSD, so why not > saying it: > "FreeBSD offers with its 2.2.6-RELEASE the most stable and powerful operating- > system, with uncounted features build over that rock-solid base." I'm giving commercial releases the benefit of the doubt. Anything more sounds too arrogant, IMNHO. > >> operating systems. You can keep up with new features as they are developed > >> and implemented by Concurrent Version System, a revolutionary way to keep > >> up with the lastest changes, through the 2.2.6-STABLE development branch. > > The bleeding-edge-staying-current part is needless here, IMHO ;) Perhaps, but I'm trying to convey the scale through which you can decide how much tinkering you want, as opposed to Linux where your only choice is, essentially, -CURRENT. > >> You can even advance to the absolute bleeding edge, with the absolute > >> latest changes, advances, and features by following the 3.0-CURRENT > >> development tree. > > Better mention the distribution-policy: > "No need to mess up with various distributions from different vendors. > With FreeBSD you get THE distribution, unique, welldefined and constantly > extended to cover the newest powertools and software. Currently there are > many thousand SW-packages and ports incorporated into FreeBSD-releases > (from A like archiver, over M like Multimedia, or S like StarOffice to Z > like ... (maybe zsh))." Hm, 'Acrobat to Zsh'... it...could...WORK! > >> And yet, even with this power and flexibility, FreeBSD > >> is offered absolutely free of charge(insert discreet caevet about > >> shipping and media charges here) to anyone anywhere in the world, and > >> comes with full source. You can even contribute your own improvements > >> back into the system! Call Walnut Creek CDROM at (800)786-9907 today to > >> reserve your hot-off-the-press copy of FreeBSD 2.2.6 for the power to > >> serve tomorrow, today! > >> > > Malte Lance > malte@webmore.com > > >-- > > > >Kris Kirby <kris@airnet.net> > >------------------------------------------- > >TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* | FreeBSD; the way computers were meant to be | * "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is * | that I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet."| * fullermd@futuresouth.com :-} MAtthew Fuller * | http://keystone.westminster.edu/~fullermd | *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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