From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 22 14:41:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from watson.ficsgrp.com (watson.ficsgrp.com [194.74.111.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CF7714CC8 for ; Mon, 22 Nov 1999 14:41:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from harry.woodward-clarke@s1.com) Received: from mail.au.ficsgrp.com ([194.74.111.35]) by watson.ficsgrp.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAA6C57 for ; Mon, 22 Nov 1999 23:41:07 +0100 Received: from S1.com ([172.16.48.219]) by mail.au.ficsgrp.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id 426; Tue, 23 Nov 1999 09:44:48 +1100 Message-ID: <3839C620.FA6A332B@S1.com> Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 09:39:28 +1100 From: Harry Woodward-Clarke X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: danny h Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The annoyance of the Linux hype when Freebsd is clearly better than Linux References: <19991122221025.1088.qmail@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hullo Danny, > > I went to the software shop with intentions to purchase the latest version > of Freebsd but they have this whole area dedicated to Linux with books etc. > But no Freebsd That's understandable. There are few commercial outlets - especially in Australia. If you're in Sydney (can't tell from your mail address ;') there is a guy at North Rocks Markets every Sunday morning (although from mid-December it goes into 'recess') who sells The Complete FreeBSD (Grog's book) with CD's. He purchases them from Walnut Creek. He will also (I think) if you ask nice, burn you a copy of the CD's (for a small charge, of course ;') > > I went to yet another. The store use to have many copies of Greg Lehney's > book now all they have is all Linux books. So, tell the manager of the store. And tell those of us in Australia which store it is, so if/when we need *BSD supplies, we can hassle them. > > The article in "PC World" last month (in Australia) talks about "Operating > systems head to head" yet the article mentions Windows 2000, OPen Linux, > Redhat Linux but no Freebsd. Sure. But that's PC World ;') I saw, and read, the article. For what it was trying to do, I think it was reasonably done. They didn't mention a whole heap of Linux Distributions in their review - I'm sure there are a heap of Linux people bagging PCW for not including their favourite distro. Remember, the article also mentioned Win98 and BeOS in the comparison. > > The hype is everywhere for Linux. > But *we* can leverage off that hype! As many here have stated - it's not an "us" (*BSD) against "them" (*Linux) - it's "US" (Open Source Unix and clones) against "THEM" ('The company from Redmond'). If Linux is leading the way, and getting the hype, does it _really_ matter? A good thing about foot-soldiers leading the way, is that they often catch all the lead ;') :') Yes, we all agree that *BSD are better Operating Systems - but, Linux is such a quantum leap forward from where the people are coming from, that sometimes they don't _need_ to go the extra step to *BSD. *But*, if and when they do eventually decide that they need something "better", we are still here. Perhaps I should join the '-advocacy' mail list ;') All the above are my opinions, which can (and will) change :') Best regards, |-| To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message