From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat Dec 18 6:15:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from sol.cc.u-szeged.hu (sol.cc.u-szeged.hu [160.114.8.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88885157CE for ; Sat, 18 Dec 1999 06:14:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sziszi@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu) Received: from petra.hos.u-szeged.hu by sol.cc.u-szeged.hu (8.9.1b+Sun/SMI-SVR4) id PAA26463; Sat, 18 Dec 1999 15:14:21 +0100 (MET) Received: from sziszi by petra.hos.u-szeged.hu with local (Exim 2.05 #1 (Debian)) id 11zKeg-0002Sd-00; Sat, 18 Dec 1999 15:16:18 +0100 Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1999 15:16:18 +0100 From: Szilveszter Adam To: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: We're No. 1 :) Message-ID: <19991218151618.A8925@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu> Mail-Followup-To: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG References: <19991217225705.A20261@futuresouth.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from bitsurfr@enteract.com on Sat, Dec 18, 1999 at 07:25:34AM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Dec 18, 1999 at 07:25:34AM -0600, Chris Silva wrote: > Hmmm - maybe we ought to do something about this?! > > http://www.dhbrown.com/dhbrown/OpSysScoreCard.cfm > As far as I can see they only rated products that are UNIX(r) systems. (Yes, before you ask it also pertains to NT. According to the X/Open Group techinically it also could receive the right to be a UNIX(r) if they applied for it and its POSIX functionality were to be found adequate. Now, that's funny. Check the X/Open Group website for details.) This seems to be rather a matter of principle which led them to overlook everything else in the field. They also note that they were not interested in market share, customer satisfaction or whatever, they only rank these OS-es according to their techincal requirements. Also they tout the 64-bit abilities and that is where we -due to the huge user base on the x86 platform- are at a disadvantage, Alpha notwithstanding. Cheers: Szilveszter ADAM -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Szilveszter ADAM * JATE Szeged * email: sziszi@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu * * Homepage : none * alternate email: cc@flanker.itl.net.ua * * Finger sziszi@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu for PGP key. * * I prefer using the door instead of Windows(tm)... * To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message