From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed May 19 15:50:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from dsinw.com (dsinw.com [207.149.40.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10B95154FB for ; Wed, 19 May 1999 15:50:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hamellr@dsinw.com) Received: from akane (ppp114.pm3-0.pdx.dsinw.com [207.149.41.114]) by dsinw.com (8.8.8/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA01980; Wed, 19 May 1999 15:46:29 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 15:41:53 -0700 () From: Rick Hamell To: Peter McGarvey Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Publicity (WAS: RE: What do newbies do with FreeBSD?) In-Reply-To: <000a01bea1db$1a1d7340$24603fc1@brick.it-dept.rncm.ac.uk> Message-ID: X-X-Sender: hamellr@dsinw.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Also, I've seen articles saying that Linux is cool but if you want a high > performance OS for mission critical apps Solaris is the way to go. > > Get the impression that FreeBSD is suffering from a distinct lack of > marketing? This topic has been hounded to death on the -chat list. :) It's something that 'we' all would like to change. In my opinion, the best way to do so is to write articles about your successes with FreeBSD and get local user groups going. I'm on meeting number 2 of the second, and writing the first. :) Oh, and I'm slowly but surely migrating office servers to FreeBSD... without anybody noticing. :) Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message