From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat Jun 17 10:36:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from smtp01.mrf.mail.rcn.net (smtp01.mrf.mail.rcn.net [207.172.4.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AF5D37B652 for ; Sat, 17 Jun 2000 10:36:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from goldtech@worldpost.com) Received: from 209-122-223-57.s57.tnt3.nyw.ny.dialup.rcn.com ([209.122.223.57] helo=beefstew) by smtp01.mrf.mail.rcn.net with smtp (Exim 2.12 #3) id 133MVr-0003lf-00 for freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 17 Jun 2000 13:36:07 -0400 Message-ID: <001201bfd882$9d8b1870$39df7ad1@beefstew> From: "leegold" Cc: References: Subject: Re: FreeBSD at work Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 13:36:47 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org i was impressed w/kde - it's got all the bells and whistles that win98 has. it's too much gui for me. But, i couldn't beleive a suite like that is FREE. it seemed to be pretty stable too. ----- Original Message ----- From: Rick Hamell To: Some Person Cc: ; Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2000 12:48 PM Subject: Re: FreeBSD at work > > > Any suggestions on how I can actually give them a better idea what it can > > really do and maybe the chance to atleast give it a try. After all, it's > > 100% free!!! This could save my company, as well as our clients lots of > > money!!! Ahhh, drives me nuts thinking of it... > > Yeah, First bring in a machine from home if you can loaded with > FreeBSD first. Load X-Windows, Star Office or Applix and make it look > flashy so that people ask what it is. Once they're aware of it, load Samba > on it and start mapping Windows drives to it. Keep all your inportant > files on it. 'Oh, just a sec, let me go get it off my FreeBSD machine.' > Show people what you've done with it. You'll get a few others interested > in it and together you can slowly get familiar enough with it that someday > someone senior enough can say. 'Well, lets save you $XXXXX amount by using > FreeBSD instead of Windows 3000 Service Pack 17' :) > > > Rick > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message