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Subject: RE: More of my totally ineffective PR efforts in action. :-)
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jordan K. Hubbard [mailto:jkh@zippy.cdrom.com]
> Sent: 14 April 1999 07:16
> To: advocacy@freebsd.org
> Cc: chat@freebsd.org
> Subject: More of my totally ineffective PR efforts in action. :-)
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> http://www.internetworld.com/print/current/webdev/19990412-fre
> ebsd.html

I don't think we should pigeon-hole ourselves as a server only OS. With the
performance of hardware these days the distinction is not very distinct.

One of the reasons NT gets chosen in companies is familiarity with the
environment from the desktop. 

Inside the project it's fair enough to focus the direction on producing the
best server platform we can but since that drives the quality of the OS up
it makes it a good desktop box as well. Publically I think we should make
more universal claims as to what FreeBSD is useful for.

We don't genuinely believe that Linux or NT are better desktop boxes do we?

Paul.


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