Date: Wed, 06 Mar 1996 20:30:43 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Jake Hamby <jehamby@lightside.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD comparison - it's time, I think! Message-ID: <18171.826173043@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 06 Mar 1996 17:20:30 PST." <Pine.AUX.3.91.960306161809.27009A-100000@covina.lightside.com>
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> 3 to 1? Wow! I wonder which web server they used (Apache?). Presumably > they used the same server software on each machine (I know, let's put They used NCSA httpd-1.3 on both machines, identical hardware. > missing" or "Does it bother you that Linux..." I'm pretty decent at > marketing principles, I think that without excessive "negative > campaigning" we can take some pretty big shots at the Linux crowd, who > will hopefully say, "Yeah, I just got used to that Linux limitation. I > didn't know FreeBSD could do that!". Excellent. I am quite interested in seeing what you come up with! :) > I think that a step-by-step "Linux->FreeBSD" transition guide is also > called for, because I expect a large percentage of new users will have > tried or be currently using Linux. This is _really_ important to our Absolutely. This question comes up fairly frequently, actually, and as we're more successful I expect to see it even more frequently.. :-) > In fact, this should probably be a chapter of the FreeBSD Handbook, so > I'll type it up in sgml and submit it to John Fieber. Great! I like your spirit, m'boy! :-) > What about Web advertisement? Some good places to buy advertising space: > Netscape (if you can afford it), SunWorld Online (you can emphasize the > similarity to SunOS, and position it as an NT alternative), We buy Netscape ads now, but bear in mind that what you're buying is a small advertising graphic and not much else. Because Walnut Creek CDROM sells more than just FreeBSD, and as Slackware hosts have to be slightly politic in their own stated biases, this is a pretty vanilla advert though. Nonetheless, I think that www.cdrom.com does some fairly reasonable advertising for us as it is. No "powered by Linux" logo at the bottom of those pages! :-) Jordan
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