Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:47:47 +0100
From: Michael Larsen <none@MLarsen--tech-nic.dk.lh.bsd-dk.dk>
To: bsd-dk@hotel.prosa.dk
Subject: Re: {Free,Net}BSD
UPS...Forgot the text, in the previos mail :)
Absolutly,, we are hopefully not going to scream of Linux,
course that's not the point...the point is (IMHO), that
VERY few ppl know of the alternative named *BSD.
And that is one of the thing, we can work on.....
/Michael
Philippe Regnauld wrote:
> > Reminds me of an article in PC World Danmark recently (on Linux),
> > claiming that Linux is 'the only OS' to support a multitude of hardware
> > platforms (ever heard of (Net,Open}BSD?). This is similar to the trend
> > of referring to Linux as a 'UNIX-platform' and using the term
> > 'UNIX/Linux' when generally referring to UNIX issues..
>
> Yes, very irritating -- it's also making it easy for anti-UNIX
> advocates to say, "see, there's 20 UNIX distributions,
> and Linux doesn't even consider itself one of them"...
>
> This is unfortunately the problem with PC World / Alt om Data, and
> all other PC generalist publications.
>
> There's two ways to go about it:
>
> - criticize them as incompetent columnists who probably discovered
> computing by accident and don't know what they're talking about,
> even less outside the world of PC compatibles (which is more or less
> what most computer professionals have been doing for years, refusing
> to work with/read these magazines)
>
> - do something about it and offer technically interesting *and*
> "mentally provocative" articles that are likely to be published
> by those magazines, like:
>
> o "Be a Rebel, run Linux!"
> o "The truth is out there: X-BSD"
>
> etc...
>
> I very much share Jordan's <none@jkh--freebsd.org.lh.bsd-dk.dk> point of view
> that we should encourage BSD *and* Linux at the same time -- what's
> good for them is usually good for us (binary compatibility makes it
> more so).
>
> Of course, these magazines are more likely to want Product Reviews,
> than "Howto" articles. So it's best to aim for existing solutions,
> or even commercial products for *BSD -- Stronghold, Netscape stuff,
> backup servers, etc...
>
> Suggestions ?
>
> --
> -[ Philippe Regnauld / Sysadmin ]-
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