From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Dec 1 06:13:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA01628 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Tue, 1 Dec 1998 06:13:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from obie.softweyr.com ([204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA01620 for ; Tue, 1 Dec 1998 06:13:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (zaphod.softweyr.com [204.68.178.35]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA20603; Tue, 1 Dec 1998 07:16:12 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <3663FA17.59C1C791@softweyr.com> Date: Tue, 01 Dec 1998 07:15:51 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr llc X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Jason C. Wells" CC: FreeBSD-advocacy Subject: Re: Good Job!! References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Jason C. Wells" wrote: > > I just visited FreeBSD mall. As well as /. > > I was surprised to see that FreeBSD now offers commercial technical > support including "break-in analysis". Applixware is available. This is > all very cool. Very Cool. Time to get that download going. My brother uses ApplixWare for all of his work stuff, and his MBA classes, on Linux. I'll go get it now. > Slashdot is a visible tool for FreeBSD advocacy. Write something useful > and perhaps it will get posted. I have seen some Linuxites do some > trolling but I also see them get quickly rebuffed by smarter folks. All in > all I think we can gain some press for FreeBSD there. In particular, "CmdTaco" has been pretty good at posting FreeBSD news when he hears of it, even if he is a Linuxer. All in all, /. has been good about posting BSD news. They carry an announcement of each issue of Daemon News as well. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message