From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed May 13 09:17:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA22637 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Wed, 13 May 1998 09:17:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from uhura.concentric.net (uhura.concentric.net [206.173.119.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA22624 for ; Wed, 13 May 1998 09:17:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Ashort@concentric.net) Received: from marconi.concentric.net (marconi [206.173.119.71]) by uhura.concentric.net (8.8.8/(98/04/23 5.10)) id MAA06567; Wed, 13 May 1998 12:17:03 -0400 (EDT) [1-800-745-2747 The Concentric Network] Received: from mariner.cris.com (mariner.concentric.net [206.173.119.83]) by marconi.concentric.net (8.8.8) id MAA18376; Wed, 13 May 1998 12:17:02 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 12:17:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew Short X-Sender: Ashort@mariner.cris.com To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD vs Linux In-Reply-To: <9338.895071897@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 13 May 1998, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > I had NO idea that Yahoo! and Walnut creek ran on FreeBSD until I started > > DIGGING to find out something about FreeBSD. The odd site here and there > > Hmmm. Is the freebsd newsletter really so well hidden? I'd welcome > suggestions on how to make it less so. All I am saying is that FreeBSD isn't really on the mainstream's mind. I can only speak for myself remaining so ignorant for so long, and the fact that I only know of 2 or 3 people who I have met who actually KNOW what it is. Fewer still know why it is a good OS for a wide range of applications. I am not saying this is GOOD, but it IS what I perceive. A TON of people know the name "Linux". More still "NT", and well, every joe who has seen Technology news on CNN thinks they can talk about Windows95...and now 98. (No offense to people named Joe, nor to the Wordstar-like text editor). ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew Short Colossians 3:23 ashort@concentric.net http://www.concentric.net/~ashort/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message