From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Nov 12 11:21:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from pebkac.owp.csus.edu (pebkac.owp.csus.edu [130.86.232.245]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B973214EA9 for ; Fri, 12 Nov 1999 11:21:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu) Received: from owp.csus.edu (mail.owp.csus.edu [130.86.232.247]) by pebkac.owp.csus.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA27829; Fri, 12 Nov 1999 11:20:58 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <382C6894.E7DB92E4@owp.csus.edu> Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 19:20:52 +0000 From: Joseph Scott X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.36 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brett Glass Cc: "Igor B. Bykhalo" , "-chat@FreeBSD" Subject: Re: China loves Linux? References: <01bf2cf4$81bdb880$0000e9c1@serv2.binep.ac.ru> <4.2.0.58.19991112105353.045a9cc0@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Brett Glass wrote: > > At 04:59 PM 11/12/1999 +0000, Joseph Scott wrote: > > > I think it's much easier for FreeBSD to show > >what a makes it a neat OS when you are talking to people who are already > >familiar with unix in general. > > But it's harder to get them to convert, since what they're using is > ALREADY very much like FreeBSD. The advantages of switching are much > smaller than for, say, an NT user. Best to get them using FreeBSD from > the outset. > Fair enough. I wouldn't argue that they shouldn't start with FreeBSD instead of Linux. -- Joseph Scott joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu Office Of Water Programs - CSU Sacramento To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message