From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon Jul 26 1:40: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from id-bucharest.idsrom.com (idsoft-pc.digiro.net [194.102.93.214]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCE48152D3 for ; Mon, 26 Jul 1999 01:39:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rfotescu@idsrom.com) Received: by id-bucharest.idsrom.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) id ; Mon, 26 Jul 1999 11:39:23 +0300 Message-ID: From: Radu-Cristian FOTESCU To: "'jim@blues.ghis.net'" Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: What to tell to Linux-centric people?! Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 11:39:21 +0300 Importance: high X-Priority: 1 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > You're right, I'll switch my servers over to Linux right away. > > > > > > P.s. There's Linux wallpaper? > > > > Now, THAT is malicious!! The Linux penguin is all over, in all > > sizes, and the *BSD community isn't able to spread their own daemon! > > This IS a shame! > > Look, if you're not happy with what's available, make some yourself > instead of bitching and expecting other people to do it. You were > shown where to find images, but they're still not good enough.. > bitching and moaning about it isn't solving anything or making other > images that don't exist magically appear. It's only going to end up > getting on everyone's nerves (especially people who *do* contribute), > and get you a bunch hostile responses. With *that* kind of approaching people and issues, you should NOT be surprised by the fact that FreeBSD has an unappropriatedly low audience, despite its better stability and performance, compared with Linux! OK, Linux is used also by ... unconscious people, just because they can hack in it and play Doom [I never played Doom!]. Some are also attracted by the hype [that's why I feel RedHat is beginning to look like Micro$oft]. Good things are for people able to recognbize and appreciate this, so it isn't a minus the fact that FreeBSD is a kinda "private old English club :-)", not that open to all unnecessary changes and not wanting to satisfy all tastes. That's why I tend to recommend FreeBSD as THE "rock solid" OS to any person, despite the fact that I have a much greater knowledge of Linux [that stands for myself :-(]. Now, when I see that FreeBSD community is made by such _proud_ people as you are [and remember: I was trying to became a FreeBSD advocate, even if I'm coming from Linux! so we weren't in any "religious" war!], I may change my mind. Maybe FreeBSD is not the best choice. Maybe other Unix-like Oses [primarily, Linux, I don't know which distribution, but let's say Linux for now] should take from FreeBSD all the good stuff andf that's all! I hate GPL, but due to the fact that it also exist a LGPL for the libraries, writing code from scratch and *dynamically* linking them with gnu libs make easy to keep private your sources, hence developping commercial apps for Linux. Why losing so much time for persuading people to switch to FreeBSD if the FreeBSD community doesn't want this? Let them enjoy this marvelous OS just for themelves, in the club... Regards, Radu-Cristian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message