From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon Jul 26 2:21:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE8471535E for ; Mon, 26 Jul 1999 02:21:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id SAA15139; Mon, 26 Jul 1999 18:48:29 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id SAA59665; Mon, 26 Jul 1999 18:48:29 +0930 (CST) Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 18:48:29 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Radu-Cristian FOTESCU Cc: Seth , freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What to tell to Linux-centric people?! Message-ID: <19990726184829.X51019@freebie.lemis.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: ; from Radu-Cristian FOTESCU on Mon, Jul 26, 1999 at 10:50:24AM +0300 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] On Monday, 26 July 1999 at 10:50:24 +0300, Radu-Cristian FOTESCU wrote: >> Because the application list is already on any modern FreeBSD system if >> you've installed the ports collection. Ports is one of the FreeBSD's > > Yeah, but this is NOT what I meant! Imagine that thousands of people are > making, for their own use or not, thousands of free [well, GPLed] Linux > apps. Why should I use Yahoo! to find that it *might* be on that world some > app which could help me? Instead... I can go to linuxapps.com, take the > source from there, and compile it either for Linux, either for FreeBSD! > However... :-( Yes, you're definitely confused. What does Yahoo! have to do with the issue? The Ports Collection is part of FreeBSD. >> Even images with the BSD daemon are impossible to find in sizes and >> formats that would make them suitable for a wallpaper or something >> like that... >> >>> Have you checked http://advocacy.freebsd.org/ammunition/images.html? > > Yes, but things could me MUCH better! I just want the _regular_ daemon, at a > greater size! Not the "new" daemons! The daemon from cdrom's cover, that is. > And I saw in an article, the same BSD daemon showing a "Will work for free" > sticker, but it was ways too small! I suspect you haven't seen all the images. If you have, you might like to clarify what you find irregular about them, and what kind of regularity you would like to have. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message