From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 18 17:13:28 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5D8E16A4DE for ; Fri, 18 Aug 2006 17:13:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matt@iXsystems.com) Received: from knight.ixsystems.net (knight.ixsystems.net [206.40.55.67]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C53E43D72 for ; Fri, 18 Aug 2006 17:13:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from matt@iXsystems.com) Received: from [192.168.1.197] (drawbridge.ixsystems.net [206.40.55.65]) by knight.ixsystems.net (8.12.10/8.11.6) with ESMTP id k7IGxQAO026966; Fri, 18 Aug 2006 09:59:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from matt@iXsystems.com) Message-ID: <44E5F52D.5010607@iXsystems.com> Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 10:13:17 -0700 From: Matt Olander User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Macintosh/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Scott I. Remick" References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "So what's FreeBSD doing at Linux World...?" X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 17:13:28 -0000 Scott I. Remick wrote: > Thought this was cute and so I'll share: > > Side note: When I approached the FreeBSD booth, my first question was, > "So, what's FreeBSD doing here at LinuxWorld?" Without losing a beat, the > FreeBSD guy responded, "Actually, in an alternate universe, I'm attending > BSDWorld and there's one Linux booth. However, my transporter > malfunctioned 'cause it was running Linux, and so here I am." Best nerd > one-liner I've heard at the show. > >>From http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/413 Haha. It's a good thing he didn't publish the rest of what I said ;-) Working at a Linux World for 3 straight days can begin to wear on you a bit. You can only answer "So, what distro of linux is this?" so many times before you start to froth at the mouth. That said, we gave out mass quantities of FreeBSD and PC-BSD cd's at the show along with the "Why FreeBSD" article that an IBM developer wrote and we also handed out many many BSDCan and FreeBSD Foundation flyers. I was even making people wait for their BSD cd to get burned on the spot in order to separate the bizarre freebie moochers that wander these things like linux zombies. A good time was had by all. -matt -- Matt Olander CTO, iXsystems - "Servers for Open Source" http://www.iXsystems.com Public Relations, The FreeBSD Project http://www.FreeBSD.org Phone: (408)943-4100 ext. 113 Fax: (408)943-4101 --