From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Nov 12 14:57:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from taurus.oursc.k12.ar.us (taurus.oursc.k12.ar.us [165.29.134.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD79B14FDC for ; Fri, 12 Nov 1999 14:57:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from erickw@taurus.oursc.k12.ar.us) Received: from localhost (erickw@localhost) by taurus.oursc.k12.ar.us (8.9.0/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA14849; Fri, 12 Nov 1999 18:02:04 -0600 Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 18:02:04 -0600 (CST) From: Erick White To: Brett Glass Cc: Joseph Scott , "Igor B. Bykhalo" , "-chat@FreeBSD" Subject: Re: China loves Linux? In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.19991112105353.045a9cc0@localhost> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I am not sure I would say that is harder to get them to convert as it were. I like and Run both Linux and FreeBSD. I think that the experiance in any UNIX is a good thing per se, and if they have a background in a REAL operating system, then they will be less... Frightened, shall we say, when they are familiar with ( UNIX flavor X here). I think that, for the UNIX comunity in general that any flavor that is starting to be indoctrinated into the public conscience is good for the whole. Your Friendly UNIX Advocate: Erick On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, 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. > > --Brett > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message