From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sun Feb 14 21:53:15 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA07515 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Sun, 14 Feb 1999 21:53:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA07507 for ; Sun, 14 Feb 1999 21:53:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.2/8.9.1) id GAA02686; Mon, 15 Feb 1999 06:53:12 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from des) To: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Advocacy effect of the ports collection From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 15 Feb 1999 06:53:11 +0100 Message-ID: Lines: 10 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG One thing I noticed the other day: if I submit an ftpsearch query for a piece of software that's in our ports collection, most of the hits I get are distfiles on FreeBSD ftp mirrors. Nice to see "FreeBSD" plastered all over your browser when you're actually doing something totally unrelated like installing the latest libpng or whatnot on your University's Solaris / IRIX network :) DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message