From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Nov 12 10: 2:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from probity.mcc.ac.uk (probity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F4841506C for ; Fri, 12 Nov 1999 10:02:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by probity.mcc.ac.uk with smtp (Exim 1.92 #3) id 11mL1X-000KXo-00; Fri, 12 Nov 1999 18:02:11 +0000 Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 18:02:11 +0000 (GMT) From: Jonathon McKitrick To: Brett Glass Cc: Joseph Scott , "Igor B. Bykhalo" , "-chat@FreeBSD" Subject: Re: China loves Linux? In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.19991112105353.045a9cc0@localhost> 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 Here's what often happens, and it happened to me: Linux first, then FreeBSD. Play with the toy first, then move on to the real thing. Yeah, *some* people will stay with linux, but as those people migrate towards high-tech jobs and places with servers, they may be exposed to FreeBSD and take an interest. On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Brett Glass wrote: >At 04:59 PM 11/12/1999 +0000, Joseph Scott wrote: > >> I think it's much easier for FreeBSD to show >>what a makes it a neat OS when you are talking to people who are already >>familiar with unix in general. > >But it's harder to get them to convert, since what they're using is >ALREADY very much like FreeBSD. The advantages of switching are much >smaller than for, say, an NT user. Best to get them using FreeBSD from >the outset. > >--Brett > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message > -jonathon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message