From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat Nov 7 05:58:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA05216 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Sat, 7 Nov 1998 05:58:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp04.wxs.nl (smtp04.wxs.nl [195.121.6.59]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA05211 for ; Sat, 7 Nov 1998 05:58:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from chronias.ninth-circle.org ([195.121.58.10]) by smtp04.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAA3A2; Sat, 7 Nov 1998 14:58:13 +0100 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <36445054.6D8DC694@ukonline.co.uk> Date: Sat, 07 Nov 1998 15:02:11 +0100 (CET) Organization: Ninth Circle Enterprises From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: Christopher Raven Subject: Re: Linux "best of breed?" Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, Kris Kirby Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 07-Nov-98 Christopher Raven wrote: > 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? That's what I am wondering about too... www.visualirc.com -> great use of java --- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai asmodai(at)wxs.nl Junior Network/Security Specialist *BSD & picoBSD: The Power to Serve... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message