From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Apr 28 01:37:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA25264 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Tue, 28 Apr 1998 01:37:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mph124b.rh.psu.edu (MPH124B.rh.psu.edu [128.118.126.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA25254 for ; Tue, 28 Apr 1998 01:37:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gsutter@pobox.com) From: gsutter@pobox.com Received: from localhost (gsutter@localhost) by mph124b.rh.psu.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id EAA01007 for ; Tue, 28 Apr 1998 04:37:48 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gsutter@pobox.com) Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 04:37:46 -0400 (EDT) X-Sender: gsutter@mph124b.rh.psu.edu To: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Uptime Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It seems to me that a good advertising point for FreeBSD would be uptime. For example, I had a 16MB 486 up for 71 days before a power outage killed it. I have also seen posts with huge uptimes (600+ days) that would be great advertising. For posters, etc: huge text in background, "465 Days", smaller bolder text in fore with "FreeBSD uptime" and a catchy slogan, e.g. "What's a crash?" For animated/movie art (or a t-shirt): Something like "Joe's FreeBSD system has been running since..." and then various phrases or ideas like... "Before that other operating system was written." or "Bill Clinton was governor of Arkansas" and an appropriate picture or whatever else you can think of. Of course, to do things like this, we need documentable uptimes. Who's got the longest uptime? If you've got a really good one (couple hundred days minimum is ideal), post the output of "date && uptime". Greg -- Gregory S. Sutter "How do I read this file?" mailto:gsutter@pobox.com "You uudecode it." http://www.pobox.com/~gsutter/ "I I I decode it?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message