From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 25 14:18:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DCCC37B400 for ; Mon, 25 Feb 2002 14:18:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from owt.com (owt-207-41-94-232.owt.com [207.41.94.232]) by rutger.owt.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA07577; Mon, 25 Feb 2002 14:18:29 -0800 Message-ID: <3C7AB833.5060600@owt.com> Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 14:18:27 -0800 From: Kent Stewart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011128 Netscape6/6.2.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: johann@broadpark.no Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, bsd@nuug.no Subject: Re: Presentation of UNIX to an ignorant crowd References: <1014648629.3c7a4f35eab24@mail.broadpark.no> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG johann@broadpark.no wrote: > Hi. > > I'm about to hold a lecture on UNIX to people who don't even have the faintest > idea of what it's all about. > > The utter perimeter of their knowledge halts at performing government-related > tasks in Windows 98. > > My job is to convince them that UNIX -- using Mandrake on workstations and > FreeBSD on servers -- is the way to go. In other words teach them the truth, > and make them convert. I think you are ignoring the fact that FreeBSD works really well as a workstation. You also have code control of the entire system, which Linux does not have. You get a kernel here and mods there and end up with a patched system. FreeBSD is a solution and stands alone. It depends on Linux because many of the ports come from there. Kent > > I was assigned to this job on a rather short notice, and therefore I havn't > really had time to do the thorough research part myself. > > I was wondering, however, if such a thing (general presentation of UNIX, its > movements up and till now and the various benefits it may serve). My knowledge > is filled with black holes that might twist out during this presentation, which > is why I was hoping that this could be of assistance. > > Best regards, > Johann > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > . > > -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message