From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon Jul 27 17:58:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA28843 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 17:58:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA28752 for ; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 17:58:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id KAA17313; Tue, 28 Jul 1998 10:27:39 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id KAA15199; Tue, 28 Jul 1998 10:27:38 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19980728102738.W716@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 10:27:38 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Francisco Reyes Cc: "advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: http://www.opensource.org/ References: <199807260321.UAA15678@newsguy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199807260321.UAA15678@newsguy.com>; from Francisco Reyes on Sat, Jul 25, 1998 at 11:21:08PM -0400 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 X-Mutt-References: <199807260321.UAA15678@newsguy.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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