Re: Dell is asking what free OS to preinstall

2007-03-14 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 3/14/07, Tim Clewlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --- Jeff Rollin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 14/03/07, Eric Kjeldergaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > drivers.) For those of us using FreeBSD, there's not a substantial > > advantage to proprietary linux drivers over proprietary Windows

Re: Dell is asking what free OS to preinstall

2007-03-14 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 3/14/07, Jeff Rollin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 14/03/07, Eric Kjeldergaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > drivers.) For those of us using FreeBSD, there's not a substantial > advantage to proprietary linux drivers over proprietary Windows drivers. We > go unsupported either way. > > Hmm,

Re: Dell is asking what free OS to preinstall

2007-03-14 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 3/14/07, Tim Clewlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --- "Peter A. Giessel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dell is actually asking what Linux Distro to install, but if enough of us > ask for preinstalled FreeBSD, it might get them thinking about FreeBSD and > looking into providing support and espe

Re: Fwd: Dell is asking what free OS to preinstall

2007-03-14 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 3/14/07, Dag-Erling Smørgrav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "Nikolas Britton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > From the choices available Ubuntu is the only one developed and > maintained by individuals with no commercial backing. Ubuntu is developed and maintained

Re: Fwd: Dell is asking what free OS to preinstall

2007-03-13 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 3/13/07, Warren Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I was under the impression that of the Linuces out there, Slackware was most BSD-ish? How is Debian like BSD? That sounds about right, though I've only used Slackware once, a long long long time ago. The question asks: 6) Which Linux distrib

Re: Fwd: Dell is asking what free OS to preinstall

2007-03-13 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 3/13/07, Julian Stacey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2007/3/13, Peter A. Giessel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Dell is actually asking what Linux Distro to install, but if enough of us > > ask for preinstalled FreeBSD, it might get them thinking about FreeBSD and > > looking into providing support a

Re: Fwd: Dell is asking what free OS to preinstall

2007-03-13 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 3/13/07, Nikolas Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 3/13/07, Julian Stacey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 2007/3/13, Peter A. Giessel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Dell is actually asking what Linux Distro to install, but if enough of us > > > ask f

Re: FreeBSD's SVG logos are broken(was Re: FreeBSD Logo)

2006-08-23 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/23/06, Karol Kwiatkowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 22/08/2006 08:14, Nikolas Britton wrote: > FreeBSD's SVG logos are broken. They do not "render" correctly in > browsers with native SVG support, AFAIK Firefox 1.5 and Opera 9 are > the only browsers with &q

Re: Re[2]: FreeBSD's SVG logos are broken(was Re: FreeBSD Logo)

2006-08-22 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/22/06, Dan Langille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 22 Aug 2006 at 9:31, Daniel Gerzo wrote: > Hello Dan, > > Tuesday, August 22, 2006, 9:18:01 AM, you wrote: > > > On 21 Aug 2006 at 23:14, Nikolas Britton wrote: > > >> On 8/21/06, Mitch <[EMAIL PR

FreeBSD's SVG logos are broken(was Re: FreeBSD Logo)

2006-08-21 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/21/06, Mitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm not sure if something as already been fixed, but it looks fine on all my browsers (firefox on freebsd, linux, windows, konqueror on freebsd, ie6 on windows). IE6 and Konqueror don't have, native, SVG support... lets recap: FreeBSD's SVG logos ar

FreeBSD Logo (was Re: Software Freedom Day Request)

2006-08-21 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/21/06, Christian Brueffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 04:54:14AM -0700, Nikolas Britton wrote: > On 8/20/06, Christian Brueffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snipped] > > > >http://www.freebsd.org/logo.html > > > > The log

Re: Software Freedom Day Request

2006-08-21 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/20/06, Christian Brueffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 02:00:56PM -0700, Josh (Cheese) Bush wrote: > G'day > > My name is Josh, and I'm part of a team organising a > Software Freedom Day event in Tasmania, Australia. > Currently I am working on a leaflet and set of post

Re: Ask for FreeBSD support here! Let's join forces!

2006-08-20 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/20/06, Mark Kane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, Aug 20, 2006, at 16:25:21 -0300, Charles A. Landemaine wrote: > On 8/20/06, Don Witt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The next release of Adobe flash developer will have a revised > > license which will include FreeBSD. This was per the produ

Re: KDE marketing survey

2006-06-08 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/7/06, Julian H. Stacey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Unquotable binary deleted, I'm not sure this isn't a spoof, but if not a spoof, try sending text eg Ascii next time. If you google his name it has a few KDE hits, mainly from http://www.spreadkde.org/, spreadkde.org looks like a new KDE e

Re: FreeBSD BoF at USENIX?

2006-05-30 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 5/30/06, Dan Langille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 30 May 2006 at 11:16, Brian Reichert wrote: > Sorry if this off-topic: Nothing off topic about this. > I'm at USENIX in Boston, and was wondering if there was FreeBSD BoF in > the works; I see nothing on the official schedule... I leave f

Re: Flash Petition (Was Re: FreeBSD as a Desktop Article)

2006-01-10 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 1/9/06, Andrew L. Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 9 Jan 2006 05:32:48 -0600 > Nikolas Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 1/8/06, Marc G. Fournier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, Nikolas Britton wrote: >

Flash Petition (Was Re: FreeBSD as a Desktop Article)

2006-01-09 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 1/8/06, Marc G. Fournier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, Nikolas Britton wrote: > > > On 1/5/06, Frank Laszlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> > >> Kövesdán Gábor wrote: > >>> Nikolas Britton wrote:

Signatures needed, petition for native Flash player.

2006-01-07 Thread Nikolas Britton
Hello all, I need everyone on the lists to go sign the petition for Macromedia to make a FreeBSD native version of their Flash player. I also need everyone to help spread the word so we can get more sigs. http://www.petitiononline.com/flash4me/petition.html Discussion of this topic should take p

Re: FreeBSD as a Desktop Article

2006-01-05 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 1/5/06, Frank Laszlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Kövesdán Gábor wrote: > > Nikolas Britton wrote: > > > >> On 1/4/06, James Cornell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> never mind, I just made one so go sign it!!! > >> ht

Re: FreeBSD as a Desktop Article

2006-01-05 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 1/4/06, James Cornell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello. Long time FreeBSD user, new to the advocacy mailing list. I've > written a nice article about desktop adoption elaborating on 4 solutions > which need work on FreeBSD. (Java, Flash, Real, Acrobat) > > http://www.shadowdev.org/?p=24 > >

Re: Market penetration?

2006-01-05 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 1/4/06, Larry Rosenman wrote: > I was asked the following question, and didn't know where to turn: > > So, can anybody point me to some adoption statistics about BSD? > > I'd like to help my $EMPLOYER support FreeBSD, but that question keeps > coming up. > > Any help here? > Security through

Pair Networks donated $14,000 for TCP/IP Cleanup and Optimizations

2005-08-02 Thread Nikolas Britton
http://people.freebsd.org/~andre/tcpoptimization.html If your a customer, like me, of Pair Networks send them a thank you note, something simple such as: "I just noticed that your company pledged $14,000 to help improve the TCP/IP stack for FreeBSD and I would like to say thank you. Your support

Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?

2005-07-08 Thread Nikolas Britton
Johnson David wrote: From: Nikolas Britton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 2. I cringe when I see Times New Roman, again redo the whole site > with a modern web font: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, Etc. (ever here > of Cascading Style Sheets?) That's not the fault of the page, it&#

Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?

2005-07-02 Thread Nikolas Britton
Colin J. Raven wrote: On Dec 25, Dag-Erling Smørgrav launched this into the bitstream: Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: One does not need to know how to rebuild an engine to know how to drive the car. One should not criticize the design of an engine while vehemently claiming to have no i

Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?

2005-07-02 Thread Nikolas Britton
Chris wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: From a business perspective we look amateurish. I have held off thus far... I REALLY REALLY agree with this point, from the prospective of an outsider the website and "Image" conveys a real lack of professionalism, which is not true.

Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?

2005-07-02 Thread Nikolas Britton
Frank Pawlak wrote: This is one of several issues that have been brought up on an almost periodic basis for the past several years. There have been several attempts by various folks, including a rather ambitious one by this author, and all have died because of severe lack of interest. It has

Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?

2005-07-02 Thread Nikolas Britton
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg Sent: Monday, December 27, 2004 4:57 PM To: Simon Burke Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org

Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?

2005-07-02 Thread Nikolas Britton
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: nbritton wrote: gain this is are target market; consultants, integrators, vars, etc. I bet 80% of them don't even know FreeBSD exists and of the 20% that do only 20% would consider using and recommending it based on technical merit alone. A var that has a thrivi

Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?

2005-07-02 Thread Nikolas Britton
John-Mark Gurney wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote this message on Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 22:46 -0600: 2. I cringe when I see Times New Roman, again redo the whole site with a modern web font: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, Etc. (ever here of Cascading Style Sheets?) you mean a sans-serif font

Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?

2005-07-02 Thread Nikolas Britton
From a business perspective we look amateurish. I REALLY REALLY agree with this point, from the prospective of an outsider the website and "Image" conveys a real lack of professionalism, which is not true. I'm looking at the start page for FreeBSD right now and here are the things I do n

Re: Cool, Matt!

2005-04-08 Thread Nikolas Britton
Julian H. Stacey wrote: I've transcribed the dialogue to ASCII: http://daleco.biz/cluster.txt Thanks. I've grabbed that. Has anyone tried torrent down loading ? & been succesful ? Mine was stuck at 2 meg last 5 hours so I killed it - Again ! Many people have, I alone have seeded 1.4GB and the

Re: Cool, Matt!

2005-04-06 Thread Nikolas Britton
Nikolas Britton wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: I have a copy of both, you can find the cluster one here http://www.nbritton.org/uploads/ please be gentle, maybe someone should put theses on the FreeBSD FTP server/mirrors???... it's 13:35CST now and the ETA for the file to f

Re: Cool, Matt!

2005-04-05 Thread Nikolas Britton
Nikolas Britton wrote: Julian H. Stacey wrote: [ resent after bounce ] From: "Michael W. Oliver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Actually, Matt was on TSS twice "representing" FreeBSD, once with Murray in the "FreeBSD vs. Linux" show, and a second time with

Re: Cool, Matt!

2005-04-05 Thread Nikolas Britton
Julian H. Stacey wrote: [ resent after bounce ] From: "Michael W. Oliver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Actually, Matt was on TSS twice "representing" FreeBSD, once with Murray in the "FreeBSD vs. Linux" show, and a second time with Brooks discussing FreeBSD clustering. I went hunting for the