From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Sep 29 21:20:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA18293 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 21:20:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from polaris.pacificnet.net (polaris.pacificnet.net [207.171.0.250]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA18288 for ; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 21:20:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bear@pacificnet.net) Received: from shell (shell.pacificnet.net [207.171.0.231]) by polaris.pacificnet.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA25342 for ; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 21:20:36 -0700 (PDT) env-from (bear@pacificnet.net) Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 21:18:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Joey Garcia X-Sender: bear@shell To: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux looms large: Intel, Netscape slap NT, will invest in Red Hat In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from QUOTED-PRINTABLE to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id VAA18289 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 29 Sep 1998, Dag-Erling C. [iso-8859-1] Smørgrav wrote: > David Greenman writes: > > I dunno, it seems to be good news to me. It's not difficult to get Linux > > people to switch to FreeBSD, it happens frequently and they usually stick > > with us after switching. > > Yep. I'm slowly converting all my friends and acquaintances at > University. Copped one more on Sunday and spent half the night > yesterday handholding him through his first custom kernel build via > talk(1) :) I have given few cd's at school away to instructors and students. One of my buddies there has already installed the system, but I think he might need a bit of hand holding too, although I don't mind helping others because it helps me as well (especially with installs on different systems and hardware). The sad part of it all is that most the students and instructors have heard about Linux, but not of FreeBSD. :( Well I guess that's why I'm there. :) Bear > > DES > -- > Dag-Erling Smørgrav - dag-erli@ifi.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message