From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Oct 2 21:43:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA26223 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Fri, 2 Oct 1998 21:43:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from beef.cybertouch.org (h24-64-136-88.mt.wave.shaw.ca [24.64.136.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA26208 for ; Fri, 2 Oct 1998 21:43:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from beef@beef.cybertouch.org) Received: from localhost (beef@localhost) by beef.cybertouch.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA12981 for ; Sat, 3 Oct 1998 00:40:48 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from beef@beef.cybertouch.org) Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1998 00:40:48 -0400 (EDT) From: Lanny Baron To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: FreeBSD and Linux Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hmm seems like some kind of war. Just what the other camp wants. Maybe some ppl should get together, offer shares or go after some venture capital and start marketing FreeBSD well. Just yesterday I went down to the University of Toronto. To the main bookstore on campus. I did find FreeBSD 2.2.7. But I must be honest and say that I found several different versions (for a lack of better words) of Linux. Well one very good thing can be said (assuming I know enough ...which I probably don't) and that is, FreeBSD is ONE. Sort of all encompassing. Part of the problem might be that there is not a lot for business applications made for the FreeBSD platform (and if they are for accounting for example, they should not be for free). Genesys did point out to me a company which sells a true file server, uses FreeBSD and does NOT state that the operating system for their file-server is FreeBSD. That sucks. You have that little daemon pic on all your cd's and on Mr. Lehey's book The Complete FreeBSD. Damn that is a good pic. Why don't you do marketing with that? Get posters, get brochures. Shit send them to me and I will go to the University of Toronto and get them in the book store not to mention the large chain stores. I have hooked up with a well known person in the FreeBSD community to attempt to make a accounting system (gui) for the FreeBSD os. But as you are aware or should be, it is massive. I have talked with friends (accountants--c.a's in the u.s. they are certified public accountants) and they say that this is a huge undertaking. That is one of the reasons I needed to learn about samba. Anyway, I would not hit the panic button. For one thing FreeBSD is far easier to install than Linux is. But if you can either get a public offering of shares or some venture capital, you certainly have the human resources in the FreeBSD community to "kick ass" Now go do it. Lanny To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message