From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon Apr 19 15:18:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from xylan.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B548214BDD for ; Mon, 19 Apr 1999 15:18:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com by xylan.com (8.8.7/SMI-SVR4 (xylan-mgw 2.2 [OUT])) id PAA22708; Mon, 19 Apr 1999 15:14:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from omni.xylan.com by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id PAA22740; Mon, 19 Apr 1999 15:14:53 -0700 Received: from softweyr.com (dyn5.utah.xylan.com) by omni.xylan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1 (xylan engr [SPOOL])) id AA19873; Mon, 19 Apr 99 15:14:46 PDT Message-Id: <371BAAD5.D71011EC@softweyr.com> Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 16:14:45 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Brett Taylor Cc: cliff ainsworth III , FreeBSD Advocacy Subject: Re: FW: Re: NetBSD: Certified mom-ready(Jordan) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Brett Taylor wrote: > > Hi, > > On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, cliff ainsworth III wrote: > > > Another funny one I think was posted on the OpenBSD list involved > > daemon news. I think they complained that it was too FreeBSD centric. > > Hmmmm..... lets see..... it started on the FreeBSD Advocacy list and > > we incorporated the other BSD groups. And nothing prevents any of them > > from submitting numerous articles to d-news.Then a short time later > > FreeBSD had its own 'zine. Everybody got what they wanted. > > Chris and I specifically went looking for contributors from all of the > BSDs when we started DN. Ejovi Nuwere came on at the beginning and has > been an off and on contributor since then (there's a nice one about his > trip to Japan coming out next month). We even have our first BSD/OS > contributor (in theory - nothing from him yet). We have a number of > people from NetBSD doing stuff but not a whole bunch of them. The team > certainly is dominated by the FreeBSD folks, primarily I think because > there are more FreeBSD users overall so there's a bigger pool there. As > noted, it also started out on the FreeBSD list. > > We'd be more than happy to receive articles from any of the BSDs. :-) And the regular columnists try to be careful about showing a FreeBSD (or any other BSD) bias, to "spread the wealth." I have a NetBSD system at home, and try to mention NetBSD, OpenBSD, RTMX, and even BSD/OS whenever it makes sense or I can find a quote. I belong to a private informal mailing list with two other DN columnists where we review each others columns, and we often discuss the applicability of various commands, features, etc., to NetBSD and OpenBSD, though we are all primarily FreeBSD users. (And no, you can't join the list, that's what PRIVATE means. ;^) FreeBSD seems to have more users than all of the above put together, so it's natural FreeBSD will get the most attention. That doesn't equate to any sort of conspiracy against the other BSD systems. We have actively and openly recruited them. I think the entire DN staff will agree we would absolutely LOVE to get an article from Theo, on just about any topic. Even a "puff piece" on who Theo is would get published, as would such pieces on other BSD "legendaries." Except maybe Jordan -- how much personal life can a perl script have? Maybe we can interview his cats and get the scoop on what he's really like. ;^} -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message