From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 12 08:19:52 2004 Return-Path: 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 246F116A4CE for ; Mon, 12 Jan 2004 08:19:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from amsfep17-int.chello.nl (amsfep17-int.chello.nl [213.46.243.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46F2C43D49 for ; Mon, 12 Jan 2004 08:19:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dodell@offmyserver.com) Received: from offmyserver.com ([213.46.143.85]) by amsfep17-int.chello.nl ESMTP <20040112161948.DEZD20314.amsfep17-int.chello.nl@offmyserver.com>; Mon, 12 Jan 2004 17:19:48 +0100 Message-ID: <4002C8EB.8060409@offmyserver.com> Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 17:18:51 +0100 From: "Devon H. O'Dell" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031205 Thunderbird/0.4 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bill Moran References: <4002C7CD.3040002@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <4002C7CD.3040002@potentialtech.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: advocacy@freebsd.org cc: netbsd-advocacy@netbsd.org Subject: Re: I need some data for a mainstream news artical X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 16:19:52 -0000 Bill Moran wrote: > Hello all, > > I've managed to get a contact with a local newspaper (Pittsburgh > Post-Gazette) > and I'm trying to help her put together an article on open source software. > > She's curious to put in some examples of things that run OSS that people > might > not even be aware of (such as TiVo boxes). > > I'm sure that between the various BSDs (especially NetBSD) there are > lots of > devices using OSS. Some specific examples would be a great help to my > advocacy efforts in this area. > > Any specifics or pointers to sites or any type of information whatsoever > would be very helpful! > > TIA > Apart from the tons of stuff Linux is used for, we use FreeBSD as a platform to develop server appliances (DNS, IDS/IDP, mail, etc). I'm not a big NetBSD person (run it on an Ultra 1 that FreeBSD won't work on yet), but I imagine that if you want to find a BSD that runs on embedded systems, that you check out stuff on NetBSD. NetBSD currently runs on everything, including my toaster ;). To be quite serious, it will run on pocket PCs, Dreamcasts, ... you name it. I'd do a http://www.google.com/bsd?q=netbsd+embedded search. I believe there's also a NetBSD-Advocacy list similar to ours, you may want to ask there (I'm forwarding your message to that list as well). NetBSD folks: let it loose :) --Devon