From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Oct 30 14:47:05 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA17213 for chat-outgoing; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 14:47:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat) Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA17202 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 14:46:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chuckr@glue.umd.edu) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by picnic.mat.net (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id QAA09446; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 16:45:06 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: picnic.mat.net: chuckr owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 16:45:05 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@picnic.mat.net To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD: Turning PCs into Workstations In-Reply-To: <4479.878249308@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 30 Oct 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > With that in mind, I'd like to solicit suggestions for a new one, one > which will also be added to the new "advertising banner" that I'm > having done for the likes of Yahoo and UGU, who use it in their > rotational adverts (do a net search for "linux" on yahoo sometime and > you'll see it there :-), and to the picture at the top of > www.freebsd.org. I'm going to show my personal prejudice here, so I am willing to get laughed at for it. I picked FreeBSD originally because it cared (it seemed to me) more about standards. That both from a point of not making gratuitous changes just for grins, and because of the traceability of the BSD software. That seems to be at least ONE selling point, and it's one that most other free OSs can't compete with. With that in mind, .... "Staying Standard with FreeBSD" huh? If that's too corny, I would like to suggest that maybe the idea's good, just my writing might be poor, so maybe someone else could try the idea too? Another one occurs to me, "Power + Compatibility == FreeBSD" ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 3.0 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------