From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 17 13:44:47 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA20116A41C for ; Fri, 17 Jun 2005 13:44:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com) Received: from matrix.gatewaynet.com (matrix.gatewaynet.com [217.19.69.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 035FB43D53 for ; Fri, 17 Jun 2005 13:44:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com) Received: from matrix.gatewaynet.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by matrix.gatewaynet.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id j5HDUxBS007562; Fri, 17 Jun 2005 16:30:59 +0300 Received: from localhost (achill@localhost) by matrix.gatewaynet.com (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) with ESMTP id j5HDUxlX007558; Fri, 17 Jun 2005 16:30:59 +0300 Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 16:30:59 +0300 (EEST) From: Achilleus Mantzios To: =?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= In-Reply-To: <86aclp153s.fsf@xps.des.no> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-7 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why none from FreeBSD in the interview? X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 13:44:47 -0000 O Dag-Erling Smørgrav Ýãñáøå óôéò Jun 17, 2005 : > Achilleus Mantzios writes: > > Altho nothing new was said by either Linus (in the previous > > interview in the "series"), nor OpenBSD, NetBSD people, > > i still wonder why FreeBSD was left out of it. > > They claim that they "asked the FreeBSD project to participate in this > interview but they did not return responses in time for publication." Damned! Even i could spit out some good arguments in favor of FreeBSD as a superior *workstation* platform for the serious developer. Ok, just to get serious, i couldn't live without the base64 programm and the unique history completion of tcsh (not found in any linux i know of). Not to say about the only free unix implementation of JavaComms in FreeBSD ports. Also it strikes me (alright starting to feel i am getting in chat mode), that after a decade of intense advocacy, public attention, and corporate support, linuxes are still on par with FreeBSD, which is based on few (compared to linux) individuals... I wouldn't classify this "operation linux" as high "value for effort". > > DES > -- -Achilleus