From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed Mar 3 3:12:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from shibumi.feralmonkey.org (shibumi.feralmonkey.org [203.41.114.182]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9754E14E9C; Wed, 3 Mar 1999 03:12:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nick@FERALMONKEY.ORG) Received: from shibumi (shibumi [203.41.114.182]) by shibumi.feralmonkey.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 303767A3C; Wed, 3 Mar 1999 22:15:22 +1100 (EST) Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 22:15:22 +1100 (EST) From: To: eT Cc: FreeBSD Chat , FreeBSD Advocacy Subject: Re: what's in a name? In-Reply-To: <36DD15A7.DB479EDB@kryptokom.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Without an image behind it, a name is nothing. Nick -- "We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?" - Niels Bohr (1885 - 1962) On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, eT wrote: > you know, this whole lin*x thing has me baffled. ... i am wondering > why linux has a larger user/suport base in the first place? could it be that > the word linux just 'sounds' more like a friendly operating system than > FreeBSD? and that because of this new users are more susceptible to > using it? > > i mean, just all the different versions of linux out there would make me > think twice about even starting off with it? > > is linux perhaps a more 'marketable' name than FreeBSD? > > why not let's change the name FreeBSD to some variant > of linux? i agree that the time for advocacy has come upon us more > than ever before! > > eT > > -- > Etienne de Bruin; edebruin@iname.com > visit eT on the web: http://listen.to/eT (last update: 20 Feb 1999) > "god is there, there's no denying, supernatural" - dc talk, supernatural. > > > > > > 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-advocacy" in the body of the message