From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Aug 12 17:54:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from nyc.rr.com (nycsmtp2fb.rdc-nyc.rr.com [24.29.99.78]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90E7C37B405; Sun, 12 Aug 2001 17:54:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jslivko@blinx.net) Received: from hercules ([24.168.44.136]) by nyc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.357.35); Sun, 12 Aug 2001 20:54:16 -0400 From: "Jonathan M. Slivko" To: "Brett Glass" , "Mark Ovens" Cc: Subject: RE: The FreeBSD Demon Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 20:54:58 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010812183112.047b7d50@localhost> Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I was under the impression that Tuxtops are laptops running Linux, not a company or brandname. -- Jonathan -- Jonathan M. Slivko Blinx Networks, Inc. http://www.blinx.net/ "Microsoft, is that some kind of toilet paper?" -----Original Message----- From: Brett Glass [mailto:brett@lariat.org] Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2001 8:34 PM To: Jonathan M. Slivko; Mark Ovens Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: The FreeBSD Demon At 05:54 AM 8/12/2001, Jonathan M. Slivko wrote: >The reason i'm asking is because I know that there are Tuxtops out there, >and I know that Tux is the name of the Linux Penguin. So, I was wondering if >there is a similar sort of name for laptops running *BSD. -- Jonathan "Tuxtops" was actually the name of a company. I tried to persuade them to do a laptop with FreeBSD pre-installed, and actually got a solid configuration going for them. But the founders sold the company shortly thereafter, and the new owner did not show interest in having me tie up the loose ends and help them ship the product. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message