From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Apr 20 17:43:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA09819 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 17:43:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from out1.ibm.net (out1.ibm.net [165.87.194.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA09645 for ; Tue, 21 Apr 1998 00:42:55 GMT (envelope-from dwilde1@ibm.net) Received: from ibm.net (slip-32-100-79-96.ca.us.ibm.net [32.100.79.96]) by out1.ibm.net (8.8.5/8.6.9) with ESMTP id AAA93614; Tue, 21 Apr 1998 00:42:42 GMT Message-ID: <353BEB60.BB63F6B3@ibm.net> Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 17:42:08 -0700 From: Don Wilde Reply-To: dwilde1@ibm.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: James Raynard CC: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: makes you wonder... References: <199804181916.VAA14407@yedi.iaf.nl> <19980418213331.18062@jraynard.demon.co.uk> <35398553.F354E2DF@ibm.net> <19980419103704.62237@jraynard.demon.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org James Raynard wrote: > Great! But there's little sign of it here (UK) so far - Linux is > only mentioned in computer magazines, and then only in passing, and > FreeBSD seems practically unheard of. > > Actually, a so-called "Advanced Operating Systems Column" took a look > at FreeBSD last month (only 4 years after the column started, but never > mind). You know, the kind of thing where they spend one month's column > on describing all the problems they had getting an OS up (with the hidden > implication of how clever they were to overcome them) and then the next > month giving their impressions of it (with perhaps a bit more the month > after that if they were really impressed). Unfortunately, and I use the > word advisedly, he had a completely smooth installation over the Internet, > which left him with nothing much more to write than "I plugged in my modem, > tapped a few keys and that was it really" - so he devoted the remaining > two pages of his column to some Linux gismo. Sometimes quality can be a > drawback... > > Oh well, at least it's a start. You should let him know FreeBSD users read his column. That'll make him re-visit the issue. Keep to the high road, the Media _can_ be our friends. > > -- > `"regression testing"? What's that? If it compiles, it is good, if it > boots up it is perfect.' - Linus Torvalds on linux-kernel > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message