From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon Jul 27 02:37:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA10029 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 02:37:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from internationalschool.co.uk (root@[194.72.37.214]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA10012 for ; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 02:37:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stuart@internationalschool.co.uk) Received: from internationalschool.co.uk (bamboo.tis [10.0.0.70]) by internationalschool.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA26755; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 10:34:49 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <35BC49D9.4BE31CDA@internationalschool.co.uk> Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 10:35:21 +0100 From: Stuart Henderson Organization: The International School X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5b1 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Open Systems Networking CC: Frank Pawlak , Brett Glass , advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD not mentioned on NPR "alternative OSes" show References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Open Systems Networking wrote: > > It's easy to get caught up in this, but I would just like to remind > people, that *I* think were wasting time and effort competing with Linux > as a desktop OS. Don't be so sure... I don't have the article here (and it's not on the web) but UK Computer Shopper were complaining about the latest Red Hat installation program and recommending FreeBSD instead (again; I think that's about 3 issues so far this year that have mentioned us favourably :-) Maybe they could use some of those 2.2.6 cd's .... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message