From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sun Aug 8 17:25:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from smtp03.primenet.com (smtp03.primenet.com [206.165.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7918014BFC; Sun, 8 Aug 1999 17:25:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr08.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp03.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA19342; Sun, 8 Aug 1999 17:24:13 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr08.primenet.com(206.165.6.208) via SMTP by smtp03.primenet.com, id smtpd019302; Sun Aug 8 17:24:04 1999 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr08.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA06342; Sun, 8 Aug 1999 17:24:01 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199908090024.RAA06342@usr08.primenet.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD at LinuxWorld To: hal@achilles.gibralter.net (Hal Flynn) Date: Mon, 9 Aug 1999 00:24:01 +0000 (GMT) Cc: unfurl@FreeBSD.ORG, chat@FreeBSD.ORG, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Hal Flynn" at Aug 6, 99 10:49:59 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Out of curiousity, how are you "bannerizing" your booth, Bill? I'll admit > that when I started using FreeBSD, I was from a Linux and SysV background, > and therefore not knowing what to expect (other than that fact that a > fellow SA at work swore by it). Label me crazy and write me off (as most > other allegedly sane people have), but I think that something to the > affect of "FreeBSD, the next level" would draw a little attention. True, > not as much as scantily clad females, but somehow reaching into the > attention span long enough to draw an audience. So would a graphic login by default, that doesn't look like a kernel horked up a hairball, and advertises the fact that the machines in the lab are running FreeBSD, not DOS. I know there is a lot of resistance to this idea, but when you see an idle Windows box, you *know* it's running Windows; when you see an idle FreeBSD box, the same is not true. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message