From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Apr 30 20:03:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA12736 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Thu, 30 Apr 1998 20:03:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from polaris.pacificnet.net (polaris.pacificnet.net [207.171.0.250]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA12722 for ; Thu, 30 Apr 1998 20:03:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bear@pacificnet.net) Received: from mustang (pm3g-20.pacificnet.net [207.171.35.69]) by polaris.pacificnet.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id UAA13726; Thu, 30 Apr 1998 20:01:21 -0700 (PDT) env-from (bear@pacificnet.net) Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 20:00:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Joey Garcia X-Sender: bear@mustang To: Don Wilde cc: Frank Pawlak , freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Andreessen: Linux use growing In-Reply-To: <3548863F.F05D37D9@ibm.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Don Wilde wrote: > We have a shot at the server market, but unless we add to our appeal to > the desktop set by improving ppp and printer setup and building our own > office suite, we will remain a niche OS. That's why I take Jordan's > comments to heart about carefully approaching the Popular Science crowd > with inteesting articles, and why I want to make a Dummy's FreeBSD Demo. > --> Don > The server market is a great idea, although it would be a good idea to remind people that FreeBSD is a great workstation as well. Those that see FreeBSD as a "server only" OS might be turned off if all they want is a powerful workstation. I believe we should hit both crowds (server people and workstation people) with equal emphasis, or perhaps just a bit more emphasis on the server side. Do you guys agree? Joey Bear Garcia To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message