From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed May 5 20:13:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from pegasus.cc.ucf.edu (Pegasus.cc.ucf.edu [132.170.240.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FEB214EEF for ; Wed, 5 May 1999 20:13:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ewayte@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu) Received: from pegasus.cc.ucf.edu (pegasus.cc.ucf.edu [132.170.240.30]) Ident [ewayte] by pegasus.cc.ucf.edu (Postfix) with SMTP id E1F45340F; Wed, 5 May 1999 23:13:34 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 23:13:34 -0400 (EDT) From: Eric Wayte To: John Baldwin Cc: FreeBSD Advocacy Subject: Re: PCWeek article by Anne Chen -- Comments In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ah, but those texts have been written: "Unix for Dummies," "Mastering Unix," etc. FreeBSD is more Unix than Linux - that's why the Linux crowd has to have all of these "special" books! FreeBSD == Unix Linux == Unix like Even WinNT can be made Unix like, as far as the commands go - I use the vi that comes with the POSIX kit in the WinNT Workstation Resource Kit. Eric Wayte, DBA Univ. of Central Florida ewayte@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu On Wed, 5 May 1999, John Baldwin wrote: > Date: Wed, 05 May 1999 18:24:48 -0400 (EDT) > From: John Baldwin > To: Brett Glass > Cc: FreeBSD Advocacy , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, > Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai > Subject: Re: PCWeek article by Anne Chen -- Comments > > > On 05-May-99 Brett Glass wrote: > > Those who are fostering awareness and encouraging change ARE contributing. > > Coding is only one way to contribute, and at this point it is not even > > the most important way. Gain more mindshare and a devoted following, and > > the coders will follow. > > I agree. As I've said a couple of times now, the CS department here at Va Tech > is considering switching from FreeBSD to Linux. All of the technical staff in > the department support FreeBSD, but some of the professors don't use that to > make their decisions. They decide based on what they read in PC Magazine over > breakfast. They are looking specifically for FreeBSD in a shrink-wrapped > boxes, or books on FreeBSD. They would love to see "Mastering FreeBSD", > "FreeBSD Unleashed!", "FreeBSD for Dummies", etc. They are trying to satisfy > employer's wants, and right now they see more companies going for Linux than > FreeBSD. Technical merits such as a unified kernel and userland, central > source repository, and the ports system can only get us so far. We each have > to advocate in as many different ways as we can. And as Brett has said, > marketing and coding are two different things and not people are good at one > are good at the other. I'm a sys admin/coder who aspires to being a kernel > hacker someday. Marketing is not my strength, so while I'll do what I can, > some people are going to promote FreeBSD differently and in some ways more > effectively than I do. > > > --Brett Glass > > --- > > John Baldwin -- http://members.freedomnet.com/~jbaldwin/ > PGP Key: http://members.freedomnet.com/~jbaldwin/pgpkey.asc > "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.freebsd.org > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message