Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 09:14:04 +0300 From: Alex Kapranoff <alex@kapran.bitmcnit.bryansk.su> To: James Howard <howardjp@wam.umd.edu>, advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: InformationWeek Proposal, revised Message-ID: <20000131091404.A852@kapran.bitmcnit.bryansk.su> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0001301737410.12661-100000@sun15pg2.wam.umd.edu>; from howardjp@wam.umd.edu on Sun, Jan 30, 2000 at 05:41:48PM -0500 References: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0001301737410.12661-100000@sun15pg2.wam.umd.edu>
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On Sun, Jan 30, 2000 at 05:41:48PM -0500, James Howard wrote: > Below is my final draft of the proposed column for InformationWeek. I > have incorporated every change given. Briefly, they are: > > Wes's split of the development paragraph > Chris's plug for DaemonNews (I chose to hype his new site:) > Numerous smaller changes in the final paragraph > Paragraph on security stolen from www.freebsd.org/security > Picked a title, "Serving the World", I want a tee-shirt with this > complete with the Daemon holding the Earth > Bugs introduced by the above > > Check it out, send me some more changes. Otherwise, I'll send this to > InformationWeek on Tuesday morning. > I think it would be good to mention that FreeBSD is very good at running linux binaries (or closed-source apps, whatever fits) via its linuxolator (sounds bad for this type of article, but emulator sounds as if it slows ever'thing down, so this needs polishing). I heard that some well-known UK ISP is running linux quake-servers on FreeBSD as it does increase stability. Unfortunately I don't remember the name :( freebsd-advocacy archives should do. This can finish the paragraph: "So the range of FreeBSD software even widens with those commercial applications which are sold(?) for Linux but work even better on FreeBSD". > Serving the World > > James Howard [skip] > FreeBSD also supports a wide array of applications software. FreeBSD > maintains a database of over 3000 applications which can be optionally > installed. This database, called the Ports Collection, contains just > enough information that with a simple ``make install'' the application > is downloaded, configured, built, and installed without user intervention. > The Ports Collection contains applications like the web server Apache, > the SQL database PostgreSQL, the web application server PHP, Sun Microsystem's > Java Development Kit, Netscape Communicator, and Corel WordPerfect. > The Ports Collection also contains traditional UNIX add-ons including > Emacs, Tcl/Tk, tcsh, along with modern UNIX additions such as GNOME, > KDE, MySQL, and AbiWord. Also included are many tools translated for > Chinese, German, Japanese, Korean, Russian, and Vietnamese speakers. > And if that is not enough, most UNIX programs available in source > form will compile on FreeBSD with little or no modification. It should go over here. > To better coordinate information exchange with others in the security [skip] -- Alex Kapranoff, 2:50/383.20@fidonet, Voice: +7(0832)791845. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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