From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 23 10:42:11 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F27E37B401 for ; Mon, 23 Jun 2003 10:42:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from thor.acuson.com (ac17859.acuson.com [157.226.71.79]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F92243F93 for ; Mon, 23 Jun 2003 10:42:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DavidJohnson@Siemens.com) Received: from mvaexch02.acuson.com (mvaexch02.acuson.com [157.226.230.209]) by thor.acuson.com (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 (built Feb 21 2002)) with ESMTP id <0HGY00H7E3RNLI@thor.acuson.com> for advocacy@freebsd.org; Mon, 23 Jun 2003 10:40:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mvaexch02.acuson.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Mon, 23 Jun 2003 10:29:31 -0700 Received: from dhcp-46-117.acuson.com ([157.226.46.117]) by mvaexch01.acuson.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id JQ7NKW8S; Mon, 23 Jun 2003 10:30:47 -0700 Content-return: allowed Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 10:41:29 -0700 From: Johnson David In-reply-to: <001e01c3384c$695e6610$c601a8c0@starfly> To: bsd-advocacy@daemonnews.org, advocacy@freebsd.org Message-id: <200306231041.29418.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> Organization: Siemens Medical Systems MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 References: <002201c33812$5b881e80$c601a8c0@starfly> <20030621202703.GB10127@over-yonder.net> <001e01c3384c$695e6610$c601a8c0@starfly> Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux vs. Windows X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 17:42:11 -0000 On Saturday 21 June 2003 04:25 pm, Peter wrote: > People run Mandrake on servers? I would at least think they would use > Redhat.. Linux advocacy is such that users of any particular distro feel that it will meet everyone's needs better than any other distro. Thus you find people arguing that Gentoo is appropriate for newbies and Mandrake appropriate for servers. David