Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2000 08:38:57 -0700 From: Chip <chip@wiegand.org> Cc: freeBSD-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Without BSD...(humor) Message-ID: <39E09511.933D244@wiegand.org> References: <39E084A8.3D20844@uswest.net>
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Joe Warner wrote: > > You know those Karl's Jr. commercials where the guy > walks into a grocery store and stares blankly at a shelf > of a hundred or so brands of bread? > > Now picture the same guy walking into a computer or > software store, staring blankly at a shelf of Linux > distributions.... > > 1. http://www.topology.org/linux.html#os I recently sent an email to Cybermax regarding their software, which comes in linux and FBSD versions. The linux versions get updated often and the FBSD version is still using FBSD3.3. Here is te response to my email, part of the response - *quote begins here* We are not dropping our FreeBSD products, however, they are on a different development cycle than our Linux products and we do not currently have any updates available. --snipped some stuff about advertising in a bsd magazine-- As for linux and its splintering, it is a difficultly that we have to deal with, that is inherent in the birth of any new technology, but I think we will see some compression of this issue in the future. My guess is a lot of the current flavors will be absorbed into the more predominant distributions leaving only a couple of the strongest companies intact. * end quote * Maybe some of the -smaller- versions will go away, but what would that leave? Basically a linux version of Windows, since that appears to be where the big ones are going. They're getting bigger and fatter. I'll stick with BSD regardless of what the companys think we want. > > 2. http://bsd.reedmedia.net/Distributions/ > > .."Without BSD, some people would use Windows!." > > -- > > FreeBSD = The Power to Serve > ..Simply put = FreeBSD Rocks! > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message -- Chip W. www.wiegand.org Alternative Operating Systems To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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