From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Nov 6 06:46:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA06887 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Fri, 6 Nov 1998 06:46:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp03.wxs.nl (smtp03.wxs.nl [195.121.6.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA06882 for ; Fri, 6 Nov 1998 06:46:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from chronias.ninth-circle.org ([195.121.59.83]) by smtp03.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAA284D; Fri, 6 Nov 1998 15:46:25 +0100 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <19981106044305.J23818@nuxi.com> Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1998 15:50:24 +0100 (CET) Organization: Ninth Circle Enterprises From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: "David O'Brien" Subject: Re: On advocating FreeBSD and the Halloween memo... Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, Adrian Filipi-Martin Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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? --- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai asmodai(at)wxs.nl Junior Network/Security Specialist FreeBSD & picoBSD: The Power to Serve... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message