From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat Nov 7 05:52:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA04800 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Sat, 7 Nov 1998 05:52:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail5.svr.freeserve.net (mail5.svr.freeserve.net [194.152.65.212]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA04795 for ; Sat, 7 Nov 1998 05:52:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from c.raven@ukonline.co.uk) Received: from modem-11.cobalt.dialup.pol.co.uk ([62.136.13.11] helo=ukonline.co.uk) by mail5.svr.freeserve.net with esmtp (Exim 2.05iplimit-2 #5) id 0zc8md-0006tJ-00; Sat, 7 Nov 1998 13:52:07 +0000 Message-ID: <36445054.6D8DC694@ukonline.co.uk> Date: Sat, 07 Nov 1998 13:51:16 +0000 From: Christopher Raven Organization: CIAN X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.07 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.7-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai CC: Kris Kirby , advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux "best of breed?" References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: > > On 07-Nov-98 Kris Kirby wrote: > > Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: > >> Indeed, Linux' history != *BSD history. In fact we predate Linux. On a side > >> note, isn't it very handy to unite the three free BSD's by means of a bar on > >> the homepage and providing a quick jump point to those sites? > >> > >> FreeBSD | NetBSD | OpenBSD > > > > Maybe a sub tree under FreeBSD with PicoBSD, FreeBSD SMP, etc.? > > IMHO it sounds good =) > > problem being the size ye want to give the banner/logo/whatever... > > But I like the idea: > > FreeBSD | NetBSD | OpenBSD > FreeBSD SMP | NetBSD architectures | OpenBSD ... > picoBSD | ... | ... > > But surely the webmaster have ideas on that? > It could be done very easily using a java applet. A rotating banner that scrolled the information WITH active hyperlinks to the areas concerned. That assumes Java is an acceptable solution here? -- Christopher Raven E-mail: c.raven@ukonline.co.uk & ICQ: 2254369 http://www.FreeBSD.org/ "The Power To Serve" http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ "A PC is for life, not just for Xmas" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message