From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Apr 20 11:03:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA25828 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 11:03:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jraynard.demon.co.uk (jraynard.demon.co.uk [158.152.42.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA25518 for ; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 18:02:39 GMT (envelope-from james@jraynard.demon.co.uk) Received: (from james@localhost) by jraynard.demon.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA02333; Sun, 19 Apr 1998 10:37:05 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from james) Message-ID: <19980419103704.62237@jraynard.demon.co.uk> Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 10:37:04 +0100 From: James Raynard To: dwilde1@ibm.net Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: makes you wonder... References: <199804181916.VAA14407@yedi.iaf.nl> <19980418213331.18062@jraynard.demon.co.uk> <35398553.F354E2DF@ibm.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81e In-Reply-To: <35398553.F354E2DF@ibm.net>; from Don Wilde on Sat, Apr 18, 1998 at 10:02:11PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, Apr 18, 1998 at 10:02:11PM -0700, Don Wilde wrote: > We _are_ making a difference. InfoWorld is getting downright positive > about freeware in business, and Network World's editor asked me to speak > at NW+IOP on the basis of my use and satisfaction with FreeBSD. Great! But there's little sign of it here (UK) so far - Linux is only mentioned in computer magazines, and then only in passing, and FreeBSD seems practically unheard of. Actually, a so-called "Advanced Operating Systems Column" took a look at FreeBSD last month (only 4 years after the column started, but never mind). You know, the kind of thing where they spend one month's column on describing all the problems they had getting an OS up (with the hidden implication of how clever they were to overcome them) and then the next month giving their impressions of it (with perhaps a bit more the month after that if they were really impressed). Unfortunately, and I use the word advisedly, he had a completely smooth installation over the Internet, which left him with nothing much more to write than "I plugged in my modem, tapped a few keys and that was it really" - so he devoted the remaining two pages of his column to some Linux gismo. Sometimes quality can be a drawback... Oh well, at least it's a start. -- `"regression testing"? What's that? If it compiles, it is good, if it boots up it is perfect.' - Linus Torvalds on linux-kernel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message