From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 27 15:38:41 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54A4F16A4B3 for ; Sat, 27 Sep 2003 15:38:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp809.mail.sc5.yahoo.com (smtp809.mail.sc5.yahoo.com [66.163.168.188]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BB81044011 for ; Sat, 27 Sep 2003 15:38:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcrudy@pacbell.net) Received: from adsl-67-121-152-112.dsl.pltn13.pacbell.net (HELO pacbell.net) (dcrudy@pacbell.net@67.121.152.112 with plain) by smtp-sbc-v1.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 27 Sep 2003 22:38:40 -0000 Message-ID: <3F761179.5010600@pacbell.net> Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 15:38:49 -0700 From: Daniel Rudy Organization: SBC Internet Services User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11R6; U; FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE-p4; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Converting Linux Users X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: dcrudy@pacbell.net List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 22:38:41 -0000 Hello, I've been around trying to convert Linux users to FreeBSD. It seems that the primary objection to FreeBSD is that their software won't run. I explain to them about the Linux, SVR4, and IBNSC2 ABIs. Their next argument is what about RPMs? I explain the package system and ports system to them. It seems that many Linux users don't know a whole lot about FreeBSD. I say we go on a campain to educate them. -- Daniel Rudy