From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Mar 12 01:31:13 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id BAA11355 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 12 Mar 1995 01:31:13 -0800 Received: from gate.sinica.edu.tw (gate.sinica.edu.tw [140.109.14.2]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id BAA11349 for ; Sun, 12 Mar 1995 01:31:10 -0800 Received: by gate.sinica.edu.tw (5.0/SMI-SVR4) id AA20641; Sun, 12 Mar 1995 17:29:24 --800 Date: Sun, 12 Mar 1995 17:27:32 +0800 (CST) From: Brian Tao Subject: re: A "FreeBSD" Daemon To: hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII content-length: 646 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 8 Mar 1995, Aled Morris wrote: > > The biggest problem I've had is the name "Free" BSD - as soon as people > hear "Free" they just switch off, insisting that SCO/Sun/HP "bought" > solutions would be better. I agree. Out of the three, I would say "NetBSD" has the nicest ring to it. "FreeBSD" and "Linux" don't have that "professional" sound to them. I suppose you could go around telling everyone not to judge a book by its cover, but it would be easier just to come up with a nicer cover. :) -- Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org