From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Dec 18 07:58:05 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id HAA03065 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 18 Dec 1995 07:58:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from etinc.com (et-gw.etinc.com [165.254.13.209]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA03059 for ; Mon, 18 Dec 1995 07:57:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.etinc.com ([204.141.95.140]) by etinc.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id LAA21672; Mon, 18 Dec 1995 11:15:59 -0500 Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 11:15:59 -0500 Message-Id: <199512181615.LAA21672@etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@etinc.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 2.0.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Thomas Graichen From: dennis@etinc.com (dennis) Subject: Re: Hubbard's article in BYTE Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, hackers@freebsd.org Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >> >> > by the way - i asked the german iX unix magazine - if they would like >> > an FreeBSD article - the man there said he will discuss it in the >> > redaction conference - but until now (~two weeks later) i didn't get >> > an answer - thus i sent a reminder to the man - maybe eventually this >> > may lead to another article (we'll see ...) >> >> I spoke with the Chefredactur at CeBIT last year and he was fairly >> enthusiastic - he even showed me http://www.freebsd.org in his list of >> Netscape bookmarks. :-) >> >> You might mention the December article in BYTE to them, if they need >> another reference (it often helps to point out what their competition >> is doing :-) and let them know that I'm more than happy to discuss the >> matter with them further, if they so wish. >> >> Jordan >> >he answered again - negativ: >* >* > >* > Ok, ich schlags auf der Redaktionskonferenz vor und >* > melde mich gegen Ende der Woche. >* > >* ... was nun schon wieder eine weile her ist ... :-) >* >*Stimmt; ich hatte vergessen, mich zu melden. Es fand >*eigentlich niemand, dass die Aenderungen gegenueber 2.0 >*so relevant sind, dass ein neuer Test zu rechtfertigen >*ist (machen wir auch bei anderen Betriebssystemen >*nicht). >* >*Das soll nicht heissen, dass wir nichts zu BSD machen >*wollen. Ein Erfahrungsbericht ueber Router-Einsatz o.ae. >*waere vielleicht sinnvoller. > >in english: > >nobody in the redaction conference (i hope there's such a word in english :-) >found that the changes of 2.1 against 2.0 are relevant to make a new article >(we don't do it for other systems too) > >would eventually better to make an article about using it as a router an interesting concept......and the most obvious route to stardom......previously proposed and rejected... db ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Emerging Technologies, Inc. http://www.etinc.com Synchronous Communications Cards and Routers For Discriminating Tastes. 56k to T1 and beyond. Frame Relay, PPP, HDLC, and X.25