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Date:      Fri, 06 Nov 1998 15:50:24 +0100 (CET)
From:      Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>
To:        "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com>
Cc:        freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, Adrian Filipi-Martin <adrian@ubergeeks.com>
Subject:   Re: On advocating FreeBSD and the Halloween memo...
Message-ID:  <XFMail.981106155024.asmodai@wxs.nl>
In-Reply-To: <19981106044305.J23818@nuxi.com>

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On 06-Nov-98 David O'Brien wrote:
>>      (Do I dare?)  In contrast with the state of the Linux universe,
>> there few enough BSD's that I can count them on one hand.  it is diffucult
>> to recall all of the different Linux distributions I have seen or
>> encountered.  There's Slackware, Cladera, Red Had, Yaggsdrill(sp?),
>> Debian, etc...  

Caldera, Red Hat and Yggdrasil
 
> And if we look back 5 years for Linux too, we also get
> 
>     SuSE, SLS, Bogus

Stampede.

But anyways, that doesn't all matter ;)

Fact is, how can we beat all of those distributions again and again? What
makes Linux, apart from the attention it now gets, so attractive to newbies?

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Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai
asmodai(at)wxs.nl
Junior Network/Security Specialist
FreeBSD & picoBSD: The Power to Serve...

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