From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 15 16:23:17 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 0B3FC16A4CE for ; Thu, 15 Jul 2004 16:23:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: from imo-m27.mx.aol.com (imo-m27.mx.aol.com [64.12.137.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9782E43D39 for ; Thu, 15 Jul 2004 16:23:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Sigmascape1@cs.com) Received: from Sigmascape1@cs.com by imo-m27.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v37_r2.6.) id n.1e5.252c5a68 (15886) for ; Thu, 15 Jul 2004 12:23:11 -0400 (EDT) Received: from cs.com (mow-d15.webmail.aol.com [205.188.139.131]) by air-id08.mx.aol.com (v100.23) with ESMTP id MAILINID81-3e0e40f6af6f123; Thu, 15 Jul 2004 12:23:11 -0400 Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 12:23:11 -0400 From: Sigmascape1@cs.com To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <395AE78F.6ED0EF04.3F8EDD3A@cs.com> X-Mailer: Atlas Mailer 2.0 X-AOL-IP: 65.82.194.242 X-AOL-Language: english Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: FreeBSD Goals 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: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 16:23:17 -0000 Hi, I am not a huge poster to this mailing list, but I am interested in FreeBSD. Generally speaking, is one goal of FreeBSD and its community, to make FreeBSD as easy to use a mainstream Linux distro? I'm just curious. I see a lot of potential for FreeBSD on the server side of things, but Linux and its various distros are now making Linux easier to use on the front end of things (client side) as well as being solid in the server department. Having used SuSE 8 and 9, I can say Linux has now entered a new world of 'ease-of-use.' >From my position, I am much more interested in BSD-based alternatives that offer me and my staff alternatives on the client side. Obviously, Mac OS X is a strong alternative, but most of our hardware is x86-based. Our hardware is probably not change, so Linux is an option that is difficult to ignore. Any thoughts? Thanks! Mitch