Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 10:27:38 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Francisco Reyes <reyesf@newsguy.com> Cc: "advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG" <advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: http://www.opensource.org/ Message-ID: <19980728102738.W716@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199807260321.UAA15678@newsguy.com>; from Francisco Reyes on Sat, Jul 25, 1998 at 11:21:08PM -0400 References: <199807260321.UAA15678@newsguy.com>
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On Saturday, 25 July 1998 at 23:21:08 -0400, Francisco Reyes wrote: > On Sun, 26 Jul 1998 11:47:49 +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> Quite honestly, I don't see that the web page is that unbalanced. It >> does mention Linux much more than FreeBSD, but there's a lot more >> Linux out there, so that doesn't make it unbalanced. > > Since that first mail I looked at the site much more in detail. > I also got the same feeling as Jordan that it is unbalanced and not > because there is more Linux out there. I don't think he is purposedly > doing it, just that he is not familiar with the BSDs. > >> I think probably the best thing we can suggest is a page on "Free >> UNIX: your choice", with a summary (2 paragraphs or so) on each >> flavour, and with plenty of links to follow up to. Comments? > > That would be a good start. Since writing that, I've discovered (thanks to somebody on this list) http://opensource.oreilly.com/news/resources.html. This seems to contain exactly what we're trying to achieve. What else do we want Eric to do than to add a link to this page? I suppose it would be nice if O'Reilly would modify this page to unite all the operating systems under one header, but those are details. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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