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Date:      Thu, 1 Oct 1998 09:29:58 +0200
From:      Jeremy Lea <reg@shale.csir.co.za>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Cc:        chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Device Drivers for Linux and Intel's annoucement
Message-ID:  <19981001092958.A16597@shale.csir.co.za>
In-Reply-To: <23792.907180994@time.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 11:43:14AM -0700
References:  <36127561.48BA1020@cptech.org> <23792.907180994@time.cdrom.com>

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Hi,

On Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 11:43:14AM -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> From that point on, getting them to look at our stuff becomes about
> 100X easier than it was before, believe me.  If nothing else, they're
> now reading slashdot instead of NT Focus and we get mentioned in
> slashdot all the time. :-)

I think the Slashdot announcement of 3.0-BETA and the comments posted were
very telling.  For those that don't read slashdot, there were a number of
posts from Linux people saying they liked FreeBSD, and were very positive
about the quality and stability, even recommending it over Linux for
servers, and those that made anti-FreeBSD comments were shouted down by
(generally) other Linux advocates.

A number of people also seemed genuinely interested in looking into FreeBSD. 
It's interesting to note that you find plenty of Linux people converting to
FreeBSD but not many the other way around.

And a few Perl4 -> Perl5 comments... ;)

 -Jeremy  

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