Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 19:50:34 +1000 From: Andrew Perry <andrew@shoal.net.au> To: questions freebsd <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Commercial Applications?? Message-ID: <32DB56EA.3099@shoal.net.au> References: <Pine.NEB.3.95.970113223016.3690B-100000@acp.qiv.com>
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I'm only a FreeBSD newbie, but i like the daemon with sneakers. I see FreeBSD as a powerful OS for which for can obtain most software you require, as long as you don't mind getting your hands dirty. (as in doing some work, not nicking software!) :) andrew perry andrew@shoal.net.au Jay D. Nelson wrote: > > Why not just say "A production quality Unix for IBM PCs" or something > similar. (Is *nix or clone more politically correct?) Mentioning Linux > at all suggests that Linux is somehow best of breed. FreeBSD offers me > what Linux doesn't and Linux offers some things that FreeBSD doesn't. > > BTW, I don't think a daemon with sneakers _or_ a penguin does much for > the marketing effort. `Maudie Frick' will never use Unix knowingly, > and the post-pubescent whacker will go for the wildest and > wackiest. Your market is really the individual who already knows Unix > or a beginner who knows something of the history. > > Market tradition, maturity and stability. I have to support AIX and at > least half the code has a UCB copyright on it. Unix -- as it's known > today -- wouldn't exist without BSD! > > My compliments to the FreeBSD team. To make this good a system that > runs on the whore's nightmare of contemporary PC hardware is a truly > remarkable achievement! > > Thank you. > > -- Cheers > > Jay > > On Sun, 12 Jan 1997, Greg Lehey wrote: > > ->Doug White writes: > ->> On Fri, 3 Jan 1997, Keith Leonard wrote: > ->> > ->>> BTW - drop the 'Berkley alternative to Linux' sounds like you are trying > ->>> to catch up or are afraid of Linux - and you shouldn't be, you've got them > ->>> beat hands down on almost every front. > ->> > ->> You're referring to the note on the spine of the 'Complete FreeBSD' book. > ->> I have to agree. > -> > ->Oh. I thought this was a good compromise between "Linux-bashing" and > ->introducing as succinctly as possible what the book was all about. > ->Some of the alternatives I heard were rather radical, and I didn't > ->think that was appropriate. If anybody has a different suggestion > ->about how to attract the attention of a half-disinterested browser in > ->a bookshop, I'd appreciate it, and I know Walnut Creek would too. > -> > ->Greg > ->
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