From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Nov 14 9:17:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AC9A37B4D7 for ; Tue, 14 Nov 2000 09:17:47 -0800 (PST) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA20630; Tue, 14 Nov 2000 10:10:56 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr08.primenet.com(206.165.6.208) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpdAAAnZaiUN; Tue Nov 14 10:10:27 2000 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr08.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA22154; Tue, 14 Nov 2000 10:13:42 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200011141713.KAA22154@usr08.primenet.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD users in NJ/NYC? To: rivas45@sprintmail.com (Eric Rivas) Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 17:13:42 +0000 (GMT) Cc: fran@reyes.somos.net (Francisco Reyes), cjclark@alum.mit.edu (cjclark@alum.mit.edu), cjclark@reflexnet.net (Crist J . Clark), damien@carroll.com (Damien Tougas), freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG (freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) In-Reply-To: <3A10A58B.4031D917@sprintmail.com> from "Eric Rivas" at Nov 13, 2000 09:38:03 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > > http://www.funy.org/ > > > > I hooked up with that group once, but a few members moved away > > and I have not heard much since. > > > > I can only guess that the BSDs are more of a west coast thing in > > the US.. in the several years I have been using FreeBSD I have > > seen several instances of people asking for users in the NY/NJ > > area, but only a handfull of people respond every time. > > You can add one more BSD user from NJ to the list. > > Yeah, I think BSD is more of a West Coast thing. I have seen quite a > few Linux users around my area, but no BSD users (I feel lonely). It might be because anyone who knows FreeBSD and wants a Silicon Valley job with Silicon Valley perks, and about the same cost of living (and is tired of digging snow in the Winter), can have one. So there is a natural West-coast brain-drain, particularly for people in places like NY, NY or Taxachusetts. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message