From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 7 07:34:05 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD13616A4CE for ; Wed, 7 Jan 2004 07:34:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from amsfep15-int.chello.nl (amsfep15-int.chello.nl [213.46.243.28]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D19C43D49 for ; Wed, 7 Jan 2004 07:34:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from joao@bowtie.nl) Received: from nietzsche.intra.bowtie.nl ([212.142.29.165]) by amsfep15-int.chello.nlESMTP <20040107153400.MLUK3882.amsfep15-int.chello.nl@nietzsche.intra.bowtie.nl>; Wed, 7 Jan 2004 16:34:00 +0100 Received: from hume.intra.bowtie.nl (hume.intra.bowtie.nl [192.168.4.13]) i07FXx6v003786; Wed, 7 Jan 2004 16:34:00 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from joao@bowtie.nl) Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 16:35:14 +0100 From: Joao Schim To: Marian Hettwer Message-Id: <20040107163514.247cab62.joao@bowtie.nl> In-Reply-To: <3FFC241A.9000906@kernel32.de> References: <3FFBD7B4.8010207@kernel32.de> <20040107125842.4d970782.joao@bowtie.nl> <3FFC09D5.5080700@kernel32.de> <20040107155435.213fd21b.joao@bowtie.nl> <3FFC241A.9000906@kernel32.de> Organization: BowTie Technology BV X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.8 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.7) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Getting attention (was Re: Where is FreeBSD going?) X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 15:34:06 -0000 On Wed, 07 Jan 2004 16:22:02 +0100 Marian Hettwer wrote: > Hi there, > > Joao Schim wrote: > > On Wed, 07 Jan 2004 14:29:57 +0100 > > Marian Hettwer wrote: > > > > > >>Nevertheless, it's not the main point. > >>The main question was: How to give FreeBSD more PR? > >> > >>best regards, > >>Marian > > > > > > I've always considered the efforts made by Mr. Lucas, writing > > articles and such, quite impressive.. So maybe we just need a > > whole lot of writing .. HOWTO's, handbook translations, plain > > articles. > > > right. www.onlamp.com is great, therefor the things Mr. lucas or Dru > Lavigne are writing are great too. > Nevertheless, this don't gives much more PR. > I believe the way to get people to know FreeBSD is more likely to get > FreeBSD articles in magazines like Linux Magazine in the US, or Germany > etc. Sometimes you can find articles there, but it's often to few. > > Somebody else mentioned writing white papers for business level. This > may be a way to push easier FreeBSD at corporate level. Means, you are > the sysadmin, going with a nice white paper to your CTO, sort of. > > > Also i hear a lot of people complaining that the VA-software sponsored > > sites like slashdot and such are extremely anti-BSD. Cant say im a > > regular visitor of those sites so i wonder if that is a full truth. > > > oh well, slash-dot always has their "BSD is dead" thread. always ... > > > > btw. does anybody know of a url where a decent comparison in techniques > > used in Linux / BSD's / Windows / ... it so be viewed ? (non sponsored > > ofcourse) > > > check google. there are several comparisons. If i wasn't FreeBSD user already that answer would have defenitly convinced me to use it :-) > best regards, > Marian > just a little sarcasm. Regards, Joao -- =========================================================================== Joao Schim telefoon:(+31)40-2649860 fax:(+31)40-2649861 http://www.bowtie.nl BowTie Technology BV Raiffeisenstraat 7 - 5611 CH Eindhoven