Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 19:45:37 -0500 (CDT) From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com> To: gsutter@pobox.com Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Snarfnix (was Re: New name?) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980413194440.3875B-100000@shell.futuresouth.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980413202413.19093L-100000@mph124b.rh.psu.edu>
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On Mon, 13 Apr 1998 gsutter@pobox.com wrote: > The whole name-change idea is probably unsound. Repackaging under > different names, in my mind, draws immediate comparisons to Linux, where > they have Slackware, Caldera/Red Hat, Debian, and another handful of > smaller distributions, all doing their own thing and succeeding very > well at splintering Linux. One of FreeBSD's strengths, and one of the > main reasons why I agreed to try it (instead of installing a Linux) was > the single, unified distribution, where I could get "FreeBSD", not > "Foo-Brand FreeBSD" or "Baz-Brand FreeBSD" or "Snarfnix-8088 by > FreeBSD". Cool, is Snarfnix-8088 on wcarchive? I've got a few 8088's that are just begging 'Put Snarfnix on me!!' ;P *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* | FreeBSD; the way computers were meant to be | * "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is * | that I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet."| * fullermd@futuresouth.com :-} MAtthew Fuller * | http://keystone.westminster.edu/~fullermd | *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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