From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 14 02:45:54 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AAF616A401 for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2007 02:45:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (an-out-0708.google.com [209.85.132.249]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 410D413C457 for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2007 02:45:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id c24so24447ana for ; Tue, 13 Mar 2007 19:45:51 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=QoRtsGLqz5j8rMF7bacLTdKOxFGfco/zq0EzxdQ8k0JrUq995bM+Ok3pAk4zHPUAHPC9qxS6ZJ010WWVZOixaCyqHekmpxu6dOD7d8jU3LOtWu8zr68qHrRg1QlK0WyaS4EwxzscXBQpp5t3oAirWbcTQiaKddB6L32Ikjx0Tz4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=BndCk9oiGpW6IyVDykOi/2jJygFxCEMOZNbUHUnlmYrqoNAYqBVWohOT9eeUroH4QdIxvDjtLu3Bz6uXGstiiIv3bZ0qHptuEYEHwPCeBMSs9qBQ/Ha35F+kS+8npq6htRVlFkmjaj0Nv5i5WRGFRiJ/eK5Rt3Qd0KgfOkps0ck= Received: by 10.100.37.4 with SMTP id k4mr1457774ank.1173840351480; Tue, 13 Mar 2007 19:45:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.100.109.12 with HTTP; Tue, 13 Mar 2007 19:45:51 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 21:45:51 -0500 From: "Nikolas Britton" To: "Warren Myers" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200703132028.l2DKSN8E085575@fire.jhs.private> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fwd: Dell is asking what free OS to preinstall X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 02:45:54 -0000 On 3/13/07, Warren Myers wrote: > I was under the impression that of the Linuces out there, Slackware was most > BSD-ish? How is Debian like BSD? > That sounds about right, though I've only used Slackware once, a long long long time ago. The question asks: 6) Which Linux distribution should Dell prioritize on? a Commercial: Novell/SuSE Linux Desktop. b Commercial: Red Hat Enterprise Desktop. c Community Supported: Fedora. d Community Supported: OpenSUSE. e Community Supported: Ubuntu. f Other. >From the choices available Ubuntu is the only one developed and maintained by individuals with no commercial backing. The Ubuntu / Debian relationship would be equivalent to PC-BSD / FreeBSD. Umm and last time I checked FreeBSD wasn't a Linux distribution so writing in FreeBSD for option f is not applicable, you could write-in Slackware though.