From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat Jul 27 15:40:48 2002 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 28D5937B400 for ; Sat, 27 Jul 2002 15:40:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cs.bu.edu (cs.bu.edu [128.197.12.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A61E43E31 for ; Sat, 27 Jul 2002 15:40:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from evms@cs.bu.edu) Received: from csa.bu.edu (evms@csa [128.197.12.3]) by cs.bu.edu (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g6RMehPq014122; Sat, 27 Jul 2002 18:40:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from evms@localhost) by csa.bu.edu (8.10.1/8.10.1) id g6RMeec20809; Sat, 27 Jul 2002 18:40:40 -0400 (EDT) From: Evan Sarmiento MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15683.8552.8103.280859@csa.bu.edu> Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 18:40:40 -0400 (EDT) To: Chris Coleman , advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: my mom uses FreeBSD In-Reply-To: References: <200207271539.g6RFdr905325@csa.bu.edu> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sure thing. I'll write the article as soon as I can. :) Chris Coleman writes: > please write up a more lengthy article and submit it to > articles@daemonnews.org > > Chris Coleman Editor in Chief > Daemon News E-Zine http://www.daemonnews.org > Print Magazine http://magazine.daemonnews.org > BSD Mall http://www.bsdmall.com > > On Sat, 27 Jul 2002, Evan Sarmiento wrote: > > > Hey. > > > > I got fed up with my mother complaining that Windows 98 on her > > computer was crashing constantly. So yesterday I installed > > FreeBSD 4.6-stable with KDE3. I made her dekstop look > > as much as the old one did (as possible). She hardly > > noticed a difference and is doing all the things she > > could do in Windows. Yay 8) I might write up > > this experience into a more lengthy article, but, atleast > > now I dont have to deal with blue screens every ten minutes. > > > > Thanks a lot. FreeBSD rules! 8) > > > > - Evan > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message