From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Jul 28 07:05:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA14431 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Tue, 28 Jul 1998 07:05:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from post.mail.demon.net (post-12.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id HAA14426 for ; Tue, 28 Jul 1998 07:05:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marko@uk.radan.com) Received: from (uk.radan.com) [158.152.75.22] by post.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 1.82 #2) id 0z1AN9-0000Y7-00; Tue, 28 Jul 1998 14:05:00 +0000 Organisation: Radan Computational Ltd., Bath, UK. Phone: +44-1225-320320 Fax: +44-1225-320311 Received: from beavis.uk.radan.com (beavis [193.114.228.122]) by uk.radan.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with SMTP id PAA02555; Tue, 28 Jul 1998 15:03:49 +0100 Received: from uk.radan.com (gppsun4) by beavis.uk.radan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA08256; Tue, 28 Jul 98 15:03:48 BST Message-Id: <35BDDA22.B69C9DCB@uk.radan.com> Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 15:03:14 +0100 From: Mark Ovens Organization: Radan Computational Ltd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4m) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Stuart Henderson Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-users@freebsd-uk.eu.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD not mentioned on NPR "alternative OSes" show References: <35BC49D9.4BE31CDA@internationalschool.co.uk> <35BC7511.9E796F8A@uk.radan.com> <35BC9D50.71576D37@internationalschool.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Stuart Henderson wrote: > > Mark Ovens wrote: > > > > Really?. Comp Shopper including regular, favourable articles about UNIX?. I > > There isn't usually much about it but a few of their writers know about > it now (I think this was a redhat review, so seeing it mentioned was > particularly welcome alongside words like reliable etc. :-) [snip] > I email'd their editor a few months ago to ask if they would consider > cover mounting a cutdown release (if only a few selected packages, maybe > samba,netscape,lynx, that kind of thing, were included it could quite > happily sit on the same CD as their usual Microsoft adverts etc) but no > reply - maybe it needs helping along by the authors of friendly articles > (I'll have a dig around for email addresses later)... >From the days when I used to read Shopper I recall that Bill Poel seemed to be the only contributor who could write objectively about Operating Systems, everyone else seeming to take the view "if it's not Windows, it's just something to take the p**s out of". I would think that e-mailing Bill Poel would probably get a better response, although I don't know whether or not he can influence the contents of the cover CD. > I noticed someone asking them if they'd put Red Hat on a cover CD in the > chat forum on their web pages recently but I don't know if anyone > important reads those. They've done a Linux cover CD before though, time > for something different I think :-) I've been having a (e-mail) discussion with the author of the Hands On Unix column in Personal Computer World about something that was in last month's issue. At the end of this discussion I offered him one of these 2.2.6 CD sets and asked if he would consider writing a review of FreeBSD. I haven't had a reply yet and I can't remember the chaps' name (can find out though). His e-mail address is unix@pcw.co.uk and this is what I said (I'm not a marketing/sales person so I don't claim to be an expert at marketing things ):... ------- begin quote--------- ....and would like to see more reference/coverage of FreeBSD in Hands On Unix. To this end the FreeBSD team is making available free copies of the FreeBSD v2.2.6 CD set for promotional and review purposes. There are some copies heading over here to the UK. If I arrange for you to be sent a copy would you be willing to review FreeBSD in your column? FreeBSD is a very stable and is the OS which runs the YAHOO! search engine and the Walnut Creek ftp site, to name but 2 major commercial users. The CD set comes with hundreds of ported applications in pkg_add format. It will also run Linux & SCO binaries, further extending its flexibility. -------- end quote --------- > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message -- Mark Ovens *====================================* CNC Apps Engineer | One of the main causes of the fall | Radan Computational Ltd | of the Roman Empire was, that | mailto:marko@uk.radan.com | lacking a zero, they had no way of | | indicating the successful | | termination of their C programs | *====================================* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message