From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 7 09:59:05 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 4E47D16A4BF for ; Tue, 7 Oct 2003 09:59:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zeus.acuson.com (ac17860.acuson.com [157.226.71.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D3FA43FBF for ; Tue, 7 Oct 2003 09:59:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DavidJohnson@Siemens.com) Received: from mvaexch02 ([157.226.230.209]:2194 helo=mvaexch02.acuson.com) by zeus.acuson.com with esmtp (Exim 4.14) id 1A6vAo-0002GE-5e; Tue, 07 Oct 2003 09:58:58 -0700 Received: by mvaexch02.acuson.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Tue, 7 Oct 2003 09:55:51 -0700 Received: from dhcp-46-145.acuson.com ([157.226.46.145]) by mvaexch01.acuson.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id TRYRBYLC; Tue, 7 Oct 2003 09:54:59 -0700 From: Johnson David To: Vulpes Velox Organization: Siemens Medical Systems Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 09:57:53 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <20030929162808.41655.qmail@web10103.mail.yahoo.com> <200310061214.22886.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> <20031006232213.202b3ce6.kitbsdlist2@HotPOP.com> In-Reply-To: <20031006232213.202b3ce6.kitbsdlist2@HotPOP.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200310070957.53327.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> X-Scanner: exiscan for exim4 (http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan/) *1A6vAo-0002GE-5e*CQVYR3iU3GM* X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No; SAEximRunCond expanded to false cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Rumour Mill on FreeBSD Death Still .... 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: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 16:59:05 -0000 On Monday 06 October 2003 09:22 pm, Vulpes Velox wrote: > > I bought and wore that shirt at LinuxWorld a few months ago. I was > > working in the KDE booth and had quite a few people come up asking > > me about BSD. There was quite a lot of misinformation out there > > that I had the opportunity to correct. > > What where some of the come misinfo about it? 1) FreeBSD doesn't have Java 2) FreeBSD doesn't have a usable GUI 3) FreeBSD has little hardware support (no USB, no Nvidia, etc) 4) FreeBSD can't do SMP at all 5) FreeBSD has no commercial support All of these were, in my opinion, valid concerns in the minds of the questioners. I'm pretty sure that at least two people I talked to went out and tried FreeBSD. David