From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Apr 18 19:33:39 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA21174 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 19:33:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vinyl.quickweb.com (vinyl.quickweb.com [206.222.77.8]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA21167 for ; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 19:33:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mark@localhost) by vinyl.quickweb.com (8.8.5/8.6.12) id WAA06101; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 22:27:56 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <19970418222756.50658@vinyl.quickweb.com> Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 22:27:56 -0400 From: Mark Mayo To: Stephen Roome Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , jbryant@tfs.net, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: On Holy Wars, and a Plea for Peace [sorry Danny, wherever you are, but the title fits]... References: <4626.861257826@time.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.69e In-Reply-To: ; from Stephen Roome on Fri, Apr 18, 1997 at 06:15:45PM +0100 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, Apr 18, 1997 at 06:15:45PM +0100, Stephen Roome wrote: > On Wed, 16 Apr 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > > what do they do with them? i have yet to see a store carrying > > > FreeBSD... > > > > I've also seen copies at Cody's bookstore in Berkeley, a popular > > hangout for CS types. More linux stuff, naturally, but they at least > > had FreeBSD in the retail box in their OS section. I believe you can > > also find them at Computer Literacy, though I haven't checked recently. > > More Linux in Berekely, isn't that scary ? It's quite scary.. here at the U of Guelph in Canada, Linux is taking over as well. Unfortunate, especially considering that we have traditionally been a BSD oriented school. The sysadmin wrote NFS/NQNFS for BSD for crying out loud... but he was forced to install Linux. Luckily, thanks to Jordan and Walnut Creek, a shipment of 10 2.2.1R FreeBSD cds is headed this way, and I'm going to personally pick up my broad-sword and campaign for FreeBSD on campus :-) "Run FreeBSD, or I'l behead you". That'll be my motto. But seriously, the CS departments are where FreeBSD needs to aim its marketing arrows at - learn from the Tobacco companies: get 'em hooked while they're young and they'll be yours for eternity. I encourage everyone to pick up their broadswords and start swinging; active promotion is the only way to get freebsd more attention! -Mark -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mark Mayo mark@quickweb.com RingZero Comp. http://vinyl.quickweb.com/mark finger mark@quickweb.com for my PGP key and GCS code ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- University degrees are a bit like adultery: you may not want to get involved with that sort of thing, but you don't want to be thought incapable. -Sir Peter Imbert