From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Apr 16 18:35:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA10565 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Thu, 16 Apr 1998 18:35:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gamma.aei.ca (root@gamma.aei.ca [206.123.6.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA10531 for ; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 01:35:43 GMT (envelope-from malartre@aei.ca) Received: from aei.ca (aeiusrD-35.aei.ca [206.186.204.185]) by gamma.aei.ca (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA05511; Thu, 16 Apr 1998 21:35:26 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3536B1E1.9B81874@aei.ca> Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 21:35:29 -0400 From: Malartre X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike CC: FreeBSD-Advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux=win95 FreeBSD=winNT ??? ;-) References: <3536ACEC.9B561231@aei.ca> <3536B048.41C67EA6@ida.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike wrote: > Malartre wrote: > > > > It was funny to me, on another mailling list of FreeBSD.ORG, I have seen > > a msg who was saying than > > Linux do competition to win95 > > FreeBSD do competition to winNT > > > > So, why you dont do more attraction to win95 users? > > > > To survive, FreeBSD should not be only for server-systems. It should be > > for all people. > > Just curious, but why do you think that FreeBSD is suddenly going to > die? I haven't used FreeBSD since it's beginning in 1993, so I don't > know how much it's use has grown each year, but I hardly think FreeBSD > is going to die. > > Who's going to kill it? Microsoft? Microsoft's long term strategy is > to move everybody to WinNT 5.0. WinNT 5.0 is 30 million lines of > bloat. It's recommended that you have a minimum of 64 megs of RAM to > run it. > > How about Linux? Seems to me I hear more and more about Linux users > converting to FreeBSD. Sure, Linux will probably always have a larger > userbase that FreeBSD, but what is FreeBSD about? World Domination or a > really great OS? > > If FreeBSD was a commercial product, then yes, it would probably die. > But since the majority of people who develop for FreeBSD do it because > they are passionate about it and it interests them, I think it will not > only survive, but also thrive. > > Just playing Devil's Advocate. > > Mike > I agree with you, it will not die, but in a long term strategie, you try to have the more user possible, no?I rectify: Microsoft is taking the Unix market. And in a long term strategie, win95 will die and Win NT *lite* will be the more used OS. So, I think than hiring user from the win95 can be a great deal, no? *If* it was more easy to admin. L'avocat du Diable ;-) cya :-) Malartre -- --------------------------------------------------- malartre@aei.ca ICQ #4224434 www.aei.ca/~malartre/ FreeBSD 4 Newbies project Windows_95-B Unix FreeBSD-2.2.5-RELEASE --------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message