From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Jun 12 4: 9:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from ko.com (gatekeeper5.ko.com [205.160.52.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48ACF37B401; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 04:09:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from elineberry@na.ko.com) Received: by ko.com; id HAA07662; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 07:08:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: from unknown(151.162.240.9) by gatekeeper5.ko.com via smap (V4.2) id xma007410; Tue, 12 Jun 01 07:08:26 -0400 Subject: Re: BSD Article in Information Security Magazine To: chat@freebsd.org, advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Lotus Notes Release 5.0.5 September 22, 2000 Message-ID: From: "Ed Lineberry" Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 07:08:13 -0400 X-MIMETrack: Serialize by Router on ATLG05/GTY/NA/TCCC(Release 5.0.5 |September 22, 2000) at 06/12/2001 07:08:26 AM MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Me too. Actually, this slashdot article : http://slashdot.org/askslashdot/01/03/30/1649241.shtml convinced me to try FreeBSD. I bought an off the shelf package, had it running the next day (even X!) and haven't looked back since. - Ed > progression from using a Linux flavor. Thinking about it, I do notice > a lot of people on *BSD mail lists who say they used to use Linux and > now use a *BSD, but seldom hear the reverse (with the exception of people > who have to use Linux at work for some reason or another). I wonder > how much movement there is between the two camps... not that every Count me on that list... :) But I also mostly dropped Linux because I couldn't ever get it to install.. mind you this was Kernel 0.99something. :) Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message