From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed May 13 02:17:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA18243 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Wed, 13 May 1998 02:17:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bsd.synx.com (rt.synx.com [194.167.81.239]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id CAA18186 for ; Wed, 13 May 1998 02:16:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from <@rn.synx.com:root@synx.com>) Received: from s3.synx.com (s3 [192.1.1.247]) by bsd.synx.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id KAA02016; Wed, 13 May 1998 10:21:15 +0100 Received: from rn by s3.synx.com id aa22418; 13 May 98 11:06 BST Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 11:15:45 +0200 (CEST) From: Remy NONNENMACHER Reply-To: remy@synx.com Subject: Re: BSD vs Linux To: hasty@rah.star-gate.com cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199805130618.XAA13127@rah.star-gate.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Message-ID: <9805131106.aa22418@s3.synx.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 12 May, Amancio Hasty wrote: > > In brief, FreeBSD is not currently being recognized because we have > failed to capture the moments, our great success stories are not > marketed at all, and we are almost destructively silent > about the prowess of FreeBSD. > > The good news is that currently perhaps the world is going to start > looking for alternative OS solutions and since the server like > orientation that our core team has taken us , we are now > a strong server alternative and our desktops are very very > stable. Additionally, our ports/package repository and our client/server > software update cvs sup makes us a formidable platform . This is > not lip service this is the way I see FreeBSD. > > *We need marketing and apps that is all* > What i understood is that it's the time to prepare Press materials for the moment they will all start looking around for alternatives. I would have been happy collecting that but, unfortunetly, i'm not a US native and language is an important issue. However, i would be happy writting article scripts about FreeBSD usage cases in Europe i can find. Somewhere to send ?, someone to fix them ? I guess that if 20 of us do the same, we would quickly have a choice of perf cases, every-day cases, etc.. ------ FreeBSD: nil computum a me alienare puto (FreeBSD: nothing that is computer science is unknown to me) > Enjoy, > Amancio > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message