Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 13:49:55 -0800 From: Josef Grosch <jgrosch@mooseriver.com> To: Rick Hamell <hamellr@dsinw.com>, Kevin Weiss <kevin.weiss@mail.utexas.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Frustrating to read...ugh! Message-ID: <19990206134955.A6799@mooseriver.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.WNT.3.95.990206132257.-231053A-100000@bb-b1-11a>; from Rick Hamell on Sat, Feb 06, 1999 at 01:28:45PM -0800 References: <199902061515.HAA18344@hub.freebsd.org> <Pine.WNT.3.95.990206132257.-231053A-100000@bb-b1-11a>
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On Sat, Feb 06, 1999 at 01:28:45PM -0800, Rick Hamell wrote: > > > 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 replaced outdated machines or bloated machines with Linux servers in their 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 $20 machines, install FreeBSD on them and > donate them to schools. Get large companies to do the same thing. Quite > frankly get in people's faces about FreeBSD, but remeber to not dis Linux, > only Microsoft products....:) BTW.... I've got a list of people looking > for FreeBSD user groups locatated at > http://www.dsinw.com/~hamellr/freebsd.org/ug.html Nicole Harrington and I run BAFUG here in San Francisco. We also do the Install-A-Thons. If you need and help or advice please let us know. Josef -- Josef Grosch | Another day closer to a | FreeBSD 3.0 jgrosch@MooseRiver.com | Micro$oft free world | UNIX for the masses To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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