From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Jul 20 18:37:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from smtp6.mindspring.com (smtp6.mindspring.com [207.69.200.110]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C09237B790; Thu, 20 Jul 2000 18:37:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stuyman@confusion.net) Received: from confusion.net (user-2iveabl.dialup.mindspring.com [165.247.41.117]) by smtp6.mindspring.com (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA29096; Thu, 20 Jul 2000 21:37:35 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3977A8AA.23FA653@confusion.net> Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 21:34:34 -0400 From: Laurence Berland Organization: B.R.A.T.T. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Lucas Cc: Kris Kennaway , advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD poster idea. References: <200007201119.HAA20632@blackhelicopters.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It's generally a bad idea to post lots of me too messages. So I resisted the urge, even though I would buy one, and posted this instead. With apologies to your bandwidth... Michael Lucas wrote: > > Well, let's skip directly to the important answer: > > I'd buy one. Anyone else? > > > FreeBSD 4.1 will ship containing 3605 ports in the ports collection - > > which is an *awful* lot of applications, when you think about it > > (although of course some of them are marked broken). > > > > Does anyone else think it would be cool to have a poster with a header > > something like: > > > > "FreeBSD 4.1: Now available with the following applications" > > > > followed by a big list of all 3605 ports? > > > > One of the big things we hear about BSD is how little software is > > apparently available for it. This could make an impressive visual > > demonstration. > > > > Kris > > > > -- > > In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. > > -- Charles Forsythe > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message -- Laurence Berland <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. http://stuy.debate.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message