Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 15:43:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Ben Manes <anarchy@crl.com> To: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Some thoughts on advocacy (was: Slashdot ftp.cdrom.com upgrade article) Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.990504153510.19009B-100000@crl.crl.com> In-Reply-To: <9905041945.AA02524@traveler.e-scape.net>
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> If FreeBSD advocacy consists of being arrogant and dictating there > is only one way to do things then we're not helping to advance the FreeBSD > cause. The GPL is a license, use it if it meets your needs. One simple question to everyone calling freebsd advocates arogant, etc. This thread brewed off of (what I consider Linux FUD) posted in reply to slashdot's article. How many of you actually read the messages, or has this just become a general pissing contest? When I read them (most, not all) I saw only a few remarks against linux. Perhaps the most arogant statemet I saw was: "FreeBSD: The Power to Serve." Examples of why I consider it FUD... (or plan ignorance) When Walnut Creek Cdrom upgraded its hardware to reach a goal of 10,000 users (I believe that's there eventual goal?)... the following replies were recorded. ================================================================ Linux (as far as I know) can't handle more than 2GB (or is it 1GB?). That's a shame because FreeBSD evidently can use 4GB (2^32). When Linus is asked about this memory limitation of Linux, he typically answers: "Use a 64-bit processor". IMHO, that's not a good answer. 32-bit architecture is not dead yet. Linus should consider this limitation as a serious deficiency of Linux and work on fixing it rather than saying "Use Alpha". In fact Xeon memory address bus is probably higher than 32-bit and so a OS running on Xeon should be able to handle higher than 4GB RAM. ---Linux FUD--- 'Okay, I'm a linux newbie, so maybe I shouldn't have been able to do this, but I set up my 8.4GB hard drive with a 10mb boot partition, 100MB swap partition, and a 6+ GB partition for / under linux. (The rest is to play with win95 one of these days.) 'Didn't know I couldn't do it, and S.u.s.e 5.3 and 6.0 didn't complain. Maybe ignorance really is bliss.' --------------- 'The only reason they're running that thing on an X86 in the first place is because they're probably FreeBSD bigots and that's the only platform it DOES run on reliably.' ============================================================= Financial Problems (Score:1) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 01, @05:36AM EDT According to employees of Walnut Creek CDROM, the CDROM market is down and Walnut Creek may not be with us much longer. One major chain of computer superstores recently discontinued offering Walnut Creek products. But it is not surprising because Walnut Creek Products are overpriced. Couple that with the looting of Slackware Linux profits to subsidize FreeBSD (which has never made a profit for Walnut Creek) and you have a recipe for bad blood and bad customer relations. If I were a Linux user, I would be outraged. Thank goodness there is an alternative. I've had nothing but the best service and the best values from Cheapbytes. There you can find everything from Linux to FreeBSD at bargain prices with top notch service. I will never again waste a nickel on Walnut Creek ripoffs. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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