Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1998 23:00:33 -0400 From: VANDERHOEK TIMOTHY MICHAEL <vanderh@ecf.utoronto.ca> To: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za> Cc: Tim Vanderhoek <vanderh@ecf.utoronto.ca>, Nicholas Charles Brawn <ncb05@uow.edu.au>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: age check :) Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.981011225028.27266A-100000@spark14.ecf> In-Reply-To: <19981011202621.A16321@rucus.ru.ac.za>
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On Sun, 11 Oct 1998, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: > Of course, most of them use the student server, which runs FreeBSD, and has > quite a history (if anyone remember Geoff Rehmet from 386BSD-conversion Our servers run a mix of Irix and SunOS and some other stuff to boot. No Linux or FreeBSD. Regardless, I honestly can't see where people like <insert-name> are coming from. When I mention FreeBSD to a f!rosh, the reaction ranges from curiousity to "Oh, I need to try that because Linux didn't support my hardware" to "I've heard that's better, isn't it?". Third and fourth years are a different kettle of fish, though, but I think that's only because when they chose an OS 2/3 years ago, FreeBSD had like zilch publicity. That's different, now, but it will take a while for that difference to sort its way through the known universe. It occurred to me earlier today that OS/2 probably has more name recognition than Linux, too. -- Me. Who'd you think sent this? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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