From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Apr 9 18:37:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA22244 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 9 Apr 1998 18:37:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from euthyphro.uchicago.edu (euthyphro.uchicago.edu [128.135.21.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA22152 for ; Thu, 9 Apr 1998 18:37:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sfarrell@phaedrus.uchicago.edu) Received: from phaedrus.uchicago.edu (phaedrus [128.135.21.10]) by euthyphro.uchicago.edu (8.8.6/8.8.4) with ESMTP id UAA22750; Thu, 9 Apr 1998 20:37:01 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from sfarrell@localhost) by phaedrus.uchicago.edu (8.8.8/8.8.5) id UAA22045; Thu, 9 Apr 1998 20:37:00 -0500 (CDT) To: Adam Turoff Subject: Re: Netscape: Linux a top priority (news.com article) References: <352D5627@smginc.com> From: stephen farrell cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.108) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: 09 Apr 1998 20:37:00 -0500 In-Reply-To: Adam Turoff's message of "Thu, 09 Apr 98 16:51:00 PDT" Message-ID: <87d8eqsbib.fsf@phaedrus.uchicago.edu> Lines: 31 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.3/XEmacs 20.3 - "Vatican City" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Adam Turoff writes: > With all due respect though, the jihad should be against NT, > not against Linux. Let an OpenSource OS gain mindshare from > the big buggy boys, and then it's a downhill battle. Yes, but that's giving a lot of credit to linux. I tried to get my dad set up with linux (i was using fbsd at the time, but thought redhat linux would be a little easier and it was more likely that he'd run into someone else running it, etc). Thing was it sucked ass. He has so many problems with it that it totally turned him off to free software period. I'm afraid of Linux giving a bad reputation to freebsd... linux just has too many damn stupid windows-like problems (i.e., needing to upgrade such-and-such system library/binary to run a new app; breaking old stuff that worked; etc). I think FreeBSD needs to just spread it's reputation of being the more conservative system that is rock-solid and fast into the mainstream press. Plus then it will continue to attract the audience it wants. I just read an article by a co-founder of Yahoo about freebsd... this is the kind of thing that needs coverage. (though this article might be really old?) http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Bay/6986/yahoobsd.htm -- Steve Farrell To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message