From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 26 12:09:19 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: 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 CD9C116A41C for ; Sun, 26 Jun 2005 12:09:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from marc@blackend.org) Received: from abigail.blackend.org (blackend.org [212.11.35.229]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 125FC43D1F for ; Sun, 26 Jun 2005 12:09:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from marc@blackend.org) Received: from gothic.blackend.org (gothic.blackend.org [192.168.1.203]) by abigail.blackend.org (8.13.3/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j5QC9EA8027114; Sun, 26 Jun 2005 14:09:14 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marc@abigail.blackend.org) Received: from gothic.blackend.org (localhost.blackend.org [127.0.0.1]) by gothic.blackend.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j5QC9DcI001853; Sun, 26 Jun 2005 14:09:13 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marc@gothic.blackend.org) Received: (from marc@localhost) by gothic.blackend.org (8.13.3/8.13.3/Submit) id j5QC9DOF001852; Sun, 26 Jun 2005 14:09:13 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marc) Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 14:09:13 +0200 From: Marc Fonvieille To: Fafa Hafiz Krantz Message-ID: <20050626120913.GB587@gothic.blackend.org> References: <20050625142349.1E3F04BEAD@ws1-1.us4.outblaze.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="yNb1oOkm5a9FJOVX" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050625142349.1E3F04BEAD@ws1-1.us4.outblaze.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Useless-Header: blackend.org X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE Cc: advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Let's update FreeBSD vs Linux vs Windows XP 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: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 12:09:19 -0000 --yNb1oOkm5a9FJOVX Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 09:23:49AM -0500, Fafa Hafiz Krantz wrote: >=20 > Hello! >=20 > We've all tried advocating FreeBSD by showing our friends the > infamous http://people.freebsd.org/~murray/bsd_flier.html comparison. > But despite its excellent, it has lost its integrity because its age. > Many things have changed since then, and on behalf of all those who > enjoy advocating FreeBSD: It's time we bring the truth out. >=20 > What do you all say? Instead of bugging Mr Murray Stokely about > updating it, why don't we just update it in this thread? If everybody > could contribute their bit of truth, I am willing to compile it into a > nicely written (and designed*) sequence of TXT, HTML and PDF and post > it back here. It is very important to get this situation straight. > So we all know where we stand.=20 > [...] http://www.freebsd.org/marketing/os-comparison.html Please start from the related sgml file, i.e. diff via PRs would be appreciated. Once the "final" version will be complete, we will look to a LaTeX conversion (prefered way) and/or to some open DTP format. Marc PS: Please do not crosspost to questions@ --yNb1oOkm5a9FJOVX Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCvprozQ9RwE+OdOgRAn1FAKCWIQGpmTYXEkxh9m0EhkQfhDxVUwCdGjZk rkDMF+oJi3hNrL5Fru5JSS0= =jFid -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --yNb1oOkm5a9FJOVX--