From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Oct 11 20:00:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA24480 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sun, 11 Oct 1998 20:00:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cannon.ecf.utoronto.ca (cannon.ecf.utoronto.ca [128.100.8.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA24472 for ; Sun, 11 Oct 1998 20:00:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vanderh@ecf.utoronto.ca) Received: from localhost by cannon.ecf.utoronto.ca with SMTP id <12939>; Sun, 11 Oct 1998 23:00:34 -0400 Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1998 23:00:33 -0400 From: VANDERHOEK TIMOTHY MICHAEL X-Sender: vanderh@spark14.ecf To: Neil Blakey-Milner cc: Tim Vanderhoek , Nicholas Charles Brawn , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: age check :) In-Reply-To: <19981011202621.A16321@rucus.ru.ac.za> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 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