From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Oct 1 00:31:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA05281 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Thu, 1 Oct 1998 00:31:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from shale.csir.co.za (shale.csir.co.za [146.64.46.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA05256 for ; Thu, 1 Oct 1998 00:31:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from reg@shale.csir.co.za) Received: (from reg@localhost) by shale.csir.co.za (8.9.1/8.9.1) id JAA29174; Thu, 1 Oct 1998 09:29:58 +0200 (SAT) (envelope-from reg) Message-ID: <19981001092958.A16597@shale.csir.co.za> Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 09:29:58 +0200 From: Jeremy Lea To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Device Drivers for Linux and Intel's annoucement References: <36127561.48BA1020@cptech.org> <23792.907180994@time.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <23792.907180994@time.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 11:43:14AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 -- .sig.gz To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message