Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1998 13:43:18 +0100 (CET) From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Subject: Re: Linux "best of breed?" Message-ID: <XFMail.981106134318.asmodai@wxs.nl> In-Reply-To: <v04011707b267da707674@[128.113.24.47]>
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On 06-Nov-98 Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> At 2:24 PM -0700 11/5/98, Brett Glass wrote:
>> Ahem! It's beginning to sound as if these Linux memos, leaked
>> by Linux zealots, are a little too self-serving to be real.
>>
>> Maybe a word or two from the FreeBSD PR machine might be useful
>> here. Oh, I forgot: FreeBSD doesn't DO PR.
>
> I'm hearing more about freebsd and openbsd than I used to. It
> seems to me that things are improving.
Let me stress yer point even more, when I was in university last year, all I
heard about was Linux this, Linux that. Not surprisingly that many of us only
knew of one open UNIX, namely Linux. Ye can understand my estactic cheer when
I discovered FreeBSD at work along with a part-time/freelance UNIX guru here
in the Netherlands. He taught me a lot about UNIX and got me hooked on
FreeBSD by the sheer logic of it all... Needless to say FreeBSD is still way
more logical than Linux and whenever I talk to old classmastes whom still use
Linux I will voice my opinion about FreeBSD to them.
> But even ignoring that, what *exactly* do you think the FreeBSD
> project should do for this specific instance? Send email to
> news.com saying "Oh yeah? We're best of breed, not Linux!".
> news.com is just reporting this story, and it is a valid story
> for them to report. We don't need to go running around after
> every story about Linux and say "HEY, WE EXIST TOO, OVER HERE,
> OVER HERE, PAY ATTENTION TO ME!!!!". We need to write our own
> stories, and make our own case for our own project.
No, yer right, the least thing we want to achieve is being viewed as a bunch
of whiners who think they are getting behind in PR with regard to Linux.
> Seems to me that several people have been encouraging FreeBSD
> users to do just that. Write our own stories, talking about
> our own goals. Running after every Linux story just makes us
> look like we don't have anything of our own to say, other than
> we want to get in on Linux's fame. I think that's the wrong
> kind of PR to have.
Indeed, Linux' history != *BSD history. In fact we predate Linux. On a side
note, isn't it very handy to unite the three free BSD's by means of a bar on
the homepage and providing a quick jump point to those sites?
FreeBSD | NetBSD | OpenBSD
Just a thought,
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Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai
asmodai(at)wxs.nl
Junior Network/Security Specialist
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