From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Oct 16 00:52:21 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA13372 for chat-outgoing; Thu, 16 Oct 1997 00:52:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (gregl1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA13360 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 1997 00:52:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) id RAA00565; Thu, 16 Oct 1997 17:20:23 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19971016172023.11717@lemis.com> Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 17:20:23 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Amancio Hasty Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Ian Struble , chat@FreeBSD.ORG, Andreas Klemm , jkb , Jonathan Lemon Subject: Re: Linux vs. the rest of the world, poor OS comparison on web p References: <19971016143529.60886@lemis.com> <199710160739.AAA00671@rah.star-gate.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84e In-Reply-To: <199710160739.AAA00671@rah.star-gate.com>; from Amancio Hasty on Thu, Oct 16, 1997 at 12:39:58AM -0700 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8250 Fax: +61-8-8388-8250 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Fight-Spam-Now: http://www.cauce.org Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, Oct 16, 1997 at 12:39:58AM -0700, Amancio Hasty wrote: > Hmm... > > I think that we ought to advertise more that we need people to register > or "vote" their use of FreeBSD. I have been on companies were > employees happily carted their PCs in to install freebsd or some > other flavor of Unix;other companies , have "farms" of FreeBSD . I > wouldn't be surprised if any one of those companies which uses > FreeBSD as a product alone exceed our counter of registered users 8) We certainly should advertise it more, and make the figures available. That sort of thing interests people. Greg