From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon Oct 28 13:12:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB24C37B401 for ; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 13:12:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from thor.acuson.com (thor.acuson.com [157.226.71.79]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C37A43E3B for ; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 13:12:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from DavidJohnson@Siemens.com) Received: from mvaexch02.acuson.com (mvaexch02.acuson.com [157.226.230.209]) by thor.acuson.com (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 (built Feb 21 2002)) with ESMTP id <0H4P00H2DMU1KU@thor.acuson.com> for freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 13:10:49 -0800 (PST) Received: by mvaexch02.acuson.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 13:08:22 -0800 Received: from balderdash.acuson.com (dhcp-46-171.acuson.com [157.226.46.171]) by mvaexch01.acuson.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id RSV18Y3L; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 13:10:28 -0800 Content-return: allowed Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 13:11:34 -0800 From: Johnson David Subject: FreeBSD vs Linux For Managers... To: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: <200210281311.34328.djohnson@acuson.com> Organization: Acuson MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG A coworker and I are planning on replacing about 20 LynxOS lab workstations with FreeBSD. We originally chose LynxOS because that's what our embedded products use. But its getting too expensive to support it on workstation, and they're difficult to maintain. I stepped up to the plate and set up a prototype workstation with FreeBSD, with an identical look-and-feel to the other workstations (mwm, development scripts, etc), and created a step-by-step guide to installation and configuration. The sole purpose of these workstations is to connect to our embedded products via cu. We are all set to go to roll out FreeBSD to the other lab workstations. But some Linux advocate in the company is starting to raise a stink (even though he is unwilling to help in the conversion and subsequent maintenance). Now the manager in charge of the machines wants a report on why FreeBSD was chosen instead of Linux. Sigh. So what good reasons translated into Manager-ese can I present? Thanks, David Johnson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message