From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed Mar 3 2:57:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mta1-rme.xtra.co.nz (mta.xtra.co.nz [203.96.92.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5ECB214E4B for ; Wed, 3 Mar 1999 02:57:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from junkmale@pop3.xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker ([210.55.210.87]) by mta1-rme.xtra.co.nz (InterMail v04.00.02.07 201-227-108) with SMTP id <19990303105727.PIOI682101.mta1-rme@wocker>; Wed, 3 Mar 1999 23:57:27 +1300 From: "Dan Langille" Organization: The FreeBSD Diary To: eT Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 23:56:45 +1300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: what's in a name? Reply-To: junkmale@xtra.co.nz Cc: FreeBSD Advocacy In-reply-to: <36DD15A7.DB479EDB@kryptokom.de> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01d) Message-Id: <19990303105727.PIOI682101.mta1-rme@wocker> Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 3 Mar 99, at 11:57, eT wrote: > you know, this whole lin*x thing has me baffled. ... i am wondering > why linux has a larger user/suport base in the first place? could it be that > the word linux just 'sounds' more like a friendly operating system than > FreeBSD? and that because of this new users are more susceptible to > using it? From what I understand, it's a matter of time. Linux has been around longer. Well, I guess I should say, available longer. FreeBSD was caught up in copyright issues for a while. As far as I'm concerned, the name isn't an issue. It's the quality. -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary http://www.FreeBSDDiary.com/freebsd To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message