From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 13 21:45:23 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C56EC16A401 for ; Tue, 13 Mar 2007 21:45:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (an-out-0708.google.com [209.85.132.242]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73A7F13C45D for ; Tue, 13 Mar 2007 21:45:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id c24so1903271ana for ; Tue, 13 Mar 2007 14:45:22 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=iuGCO8a8rWKJ0I9F2he9FOk3yxzy8K627imSFz9l5e0QcuNHL74eOwQZ3RtqXzw8QcwPabHcG93FGKs9uXZoQ1DeVrg6dVjFTsdnXkz97uiYUldOquSHVWp/qH6NS0iSzRjIMY3WY861YHUcMSRb61/JKbuqVUA0VT2V02njft0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=kyx5eaNTLVDFPAB0fVkJqye5NEYGIDrf++Dg6RqK+L/RDYPtaYcNvC1cTjZM2KOdAYuqhNJTzfMaNhmoG4PeScu769qGV9fpmI6kUrWArk7IhsM9u8X2GfR9CwBUcv/3c8uQsaM/kruA50l4Nw6TwLb1/W+JVeIXjnAbQFtA1gI= Received: by 10.100.178.7 with SMTP id a7mr1300999anf.1173820677873; Tue, 13 Mar 2007 14:17:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.100.109.12 with HTTP; Tue, 13 Mar 2007 14:17:57 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 16:17:57 -0500 From: "Nikolas Britton" To: "Julian Stacey" In-Reply-To: <200703132028.l2DKSN8E085575@fire.jhs.private> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200703132028.l2DKSN8E085575@fire.jhs.private> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fwd: Dell is asking what free OS to preinstall X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 21:45:23 -0000 On 3/13/07, Julian Stacey wrote: > > 2007/3/13, Peter A. Giessel : > > > Dell is actually asking what Linux Distro to install, but if enough of us > > > ask for preinstalled FreeBSD, it might get them thinking about FreeBSD and > > > looking into providing support and especially drivers in the future. > > Tue Mar 13 21:28:11 CET 2007 > That URL http://www.dell.com/linuxsurvey > results in: > > http://www.dell.com/content/topics/survey.aspx/ss?ssid=OeAjvuto67E~&s=corp > We have encountered a problem while processing the page you requested. > If you experience any technical problems with your shopping experience > at dell.com, please contact one of our trained sales representatives > at 1-800-WWW-DELL to quickly complete your transaction. Or contact > us about the problem you have encountered. > Their website is being slashdotted right now. When you do finally get to the survey select "Community Supported: Ubuntu" for the last question. Ubuntu is based on Debian... Debian in many respects is equivalent to FreeBSD.