Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 16:13:18 +0000 From: Malte Lance <malte@webmore.com> To: kris@airnet.net, "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fw: Your Article "Freeware: The Heart & Soul of the Internet" Message-ID: <3.0.32.19980410161317.03672cfc@cyclone.degnet.baynet.de>
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At 08:42 10.04.98 -0500, Kris Kirby wrote: >Matthew D. Fuller wrote: >> >> FREEBSD - THE POWER TO SERVE >> FreeBSD: developed for years in secret in California, painstakingly >> started from 4.4BSD-Lite, is now revealed to the world. FreeBSD >> 2.2.6-RELEASE, with the power to run the largest web or FTP server, the > >Should say PC-based, IMHO. "the environmental completness for highest-productive SW-development" > >> flexibility to be easily customized to ANY task, and the simplicity to be >> used sucessfullly by anyone, is now available on CD-ROM from Walnut Creek >> CDROM (http://www.cdrom.com/titles/os/freebsd.htm), or by FTP from >> ftp.freebsd.org. 2.2.6-RELEASE offers many features implemented over a >> rock solid base, stabler and more powerful even than many commercial The commercial OSes i know are far from being as stable as FreeBSD, so why not saying it: "FreeBSD offers with its 2.2.6-RELEASE the most stable and powerful operating- system, with uncounted features build over that rock-solid base." >> operating systems. You can keep up with new features as they are developed >> and implemented by Concurrent Version System, a revolutionary way to keep >> up with the lastest changes, through the 2.2.6-STABLE development branch. The bleeding-edge-staying-current part is needless here, IMHO ;) >> You can even advance to the absolute bleeding edge, with the absolute >> latest changes, advances, and features by following the 3.0-CURRENT >> development tree. Better mention the distribution-policy: "No need to mess up with various distributions from different vendors. With FreeBSD you get THE distribution, unique, welldefined and constantly extended to cover the newest powertools and software. Currently there are many thousand SW-packages and ports incorporated into FreeBSD-releases (from A like archiver, over M like Multimedia, or S like StarOffice to Z like ... (maybe zsh))." >> And yet, even with this power and flexibility, FreeBSD >> is offered absolutely free of charge(insert discreet caevet about >> shipping and media charges here) to anyone anywhere in the world, and >> comes with full source. You can even contribute your own improvements >> back into the system! Call Walnut Creek CDROM at (800)786-9907 today to >> reserve your hot-off-the-press copy of FreeBSD 2.2.6 for the power to >> serve tomorrow, today! >> Malte Lance malte@webmore.com >-- > >Kris Kirby <kris@airnet.net> >------------------------------------------- >TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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