Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 13:28:45 -0800 () From: Rick Hamell <hamellr@dsinw.com> To: Kevin Weiss <kevin.weiss@mail.utexas.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Frustrating to read...ugh! Message-ID: <Pine.WNT.3.95.990206132257.-231053A-100000@bb-b1-11a> In-Reply-To: <199902061515.HAA18344@hub.freebsd.org>
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Well put... but why is Linux so popular? It's because of the vocal supporters who've used. It's because of the people who've quietly replaced outdated machines or bloated machines with Linux servers in their IT departments. It's very much a grass roots PR campaign. As Jordan said a little while back we (the FreeBSD community) need to do the same thing, it's the only way FreeBSD will become more popular. Some suggestions that I will follow myself once the weather clears up around here, hold a FreeBSD (but don't exclude Linux IMHO) install-a-thons and 'Windows Rebate' days at local computer stores. Get a local users group together. Get your friends to deploy home FreeBSD servers. Go to the local Goodwill and buy up a bunch of those $20 machines, install FreeBSD on them and donate them to schools. Get large companies to do the same thing. Quite frankly get in people's faces about FreeBSD, but remeber to not dis Linux, only Microsoft products....:) BTW.... I've got a list of people looking for FreeBSD user groups locatated at http://www.dsinw.com/~hamellr/freebsd.org/ug.html Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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