Re: Anyone done a BSD presentation to a Chamber of Commerce etc ?

Alexander Chamandy wrote: > On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 22:13:03 +0100 (CET), Julian Stacey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Anyone done a BSD presentation to a Chamber of Commerce etc ? (= > > IHK in Germany), that might be a particularly effective way of > > advocating BSD to a wide influential group of

Re: BSD advocacy at LinuxFest NW, April 30 in Bellingham, Wash. USA

"Jeremy C. Reed" wrote: > On Sat, 26 Mar 2005, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > > > Or are you able to prepare or provide flyers or other handouts? > > > > FYI: 3 BSDs leaflet (Free Net Open) > > http://berklix.org/bim/leaflet/ > > leaflet_e.ps does n

Re: BSD advocacy at LinuxFest NW, April 30 in Bellingham, Wash. USA

> Or are you able to prepare or provide flyers or other handouts? FYI: 3 BSDs leaflet (Free Net Open) http://berklix.org/bim/leaflet/ - Julian StaceyNet & Sys Eng Consultant, Munich http://berklix.com Mail in Ascii (Html=Spam). Ihr Rauch = mein allergischer Kopfschmerz. ___

Re: Cool, Matt!

[ 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 clustering one - No luck:

Re: Cool, Matt!

[ 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 clustering one - No luck:

Re: BSD advocacy at LinuxFest NW, April 30 in Bellingham, Wash. USA

Resend after bounce. > Or are you able to prepare or provide flyers or other handouts? FYI: 3 BSDs leaflet (Free Net Open) http://berklix.org/bim/leaflet/ - - Julian StaceyNet & Sys Eng Consultant, Munich http://berklix.com Mail in Ascii (Html=Spam). Ihr Rauch = mein allergischer

Re: Fund Raiser

Aaron Siegel wrote: > Hello > > According to netcraft there are 2.5 million webservers are running FreeBSD, > http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2004/06/07/nearly_25_million_active_sites_running_freebsd.html > If each one of these sites gave a dollar each year that could fund a lot Before this l

Re: Cool, Matt!

Thanks to Nikolas Britton (his http://www.nbritton.org/uploads/ is not readable BTW, probably deliberately to save read load ) Thanks to those who setup torrent stuff. I'm new to torrent, so for anyone else who may be too, this is what I did: ftp http://home.golden.net/~rcent/techt

Re: Cool, Matt!

> 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 ! - Julian StaceyNet & Sys Eng Consultant, Munich http://berk

Re: Cool, Matt!

Summary: Thanks, I've abandoned broken ctorrent & using a new non broken client, detail below: Detail: Wille Harald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 4 people shared the file at this moment, what should be enough. > ctorrent hasn't a "leach" mode (i think you mean leech mode). I checked spell

Re: Want a logo competition? Do it properly.

"Fafa Hafiz Krantz" wrote: > Message-id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Desist breaching FreeBSD list charter else you will be reported for blocking. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/eresources.html#ERESOURCES-MAIL "

Re: Want a logo competition? Do it properly.

"Andrew L. Gould" wrote: > On Friday 06 May 2005 04:10 pm, Dan Langille wrote: > > On 6 May 2005 at 15:01, Fafa Hafiz Krantz wrote: > > > Wouldn't it be more fair to everyone if everyone could participate? > > No. > As a user that has reaped far more benefit from the FreeBSD, and thus > from its d

Re: Romanian BitDefender for FreeBSD Mail Servers line

> As a side note, BitDefender is a Romanian brand/product. It is > developed by Softwin. The link in the main page of FreeBSD.org points > to another site that announces the product, instead of the Romanian > company's site.. Daniel, Do not cross post. Your To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org

Re: Main site makeover

Chris Zumbrunn wrote: > That thread is in the freebsd-www archive... > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-www/2005-January/001934.html > > I would personally prefer to drop the underlines. Please: Those who want to influence http://www.freebsd.org subscribe www@ & Do It There !

Advocacy projects need manpower.

Background: "Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg" wrote: > *design* of the webpage, and I cant think of a better place to > ask then advocacy, No need to Think ;-) _Read_ http://www.freebsd.org : Register the URLs the web obsessed should already be complying with: [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Advocacy projects need manpower.

John Jawed wrote: > I'm sorry, I know I was one of the ones guilty of the site layout concerns > on advocacy. You (or possibly others) raised concerns about this, and I have > since moved all of my related subject(s) to freebsd-www. Thanks John, Wishing you (& others who move www subjects there)

Use send-pr. Use chat@.

> I feel the handbook could be made clearer in some areas, but I > believe it is good in general. ( This Not directed at sender above, so sender's name omitted, but the above is a mild example of much worse noise from other hollow vessels on this list. If it doesn't help practical advocacy, a

Re: Explaining FreeBSD features

Advocacy@ cc Postmaster, "Ted Mittelstaedt" dumped advocacy@ with cross posted irrelevant noise: Message-id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Other offenders also cross post off- remit irrelevance. Advocacy@ has flooded to a cesspit of irrelevance. List remit: http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/l

Re: Use send-pr. Use chat@.

> Hi Julian, Hi Carsten > > I wouldn't agree. When you consider the sheer amount of unresolved PRs, I > have a problem with adding another one to that list. Yes, worrying, but a seperate problem. I suggested send-pr also for the Method: Regular cross posters of hot air on advocacy@ seem proba

Re: Use send-pr. Use chat@.

"Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg" wrote: > Julian H. Stacey wrote: > >>I feel the handbook could be made clearer in some areas, but I > >>believe it is good in general. > > > > > > ( This Not directed at sender above, so sender's name om

Re: LWCE

Johnson David wrote: > Will there be any official or semi-official FreeBSD presence at next months' > LinuxWorld expo? If so, I would like to volunteer to help man a booth. > > David Johnson If some others wants a list where exhibitors co-ordinate for BSD events in mainland / central Europe, mai

Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?

Nikolas Britton wrote: > Johnson David wrote: > > > p.s. My apologies for not cross-posting like everyone else is. Old > > habits die hard... > > > cross-posting?, is this thread still active on advocacy? It was a reference to too many others having been regularly breaking the `Do Not Cross Post

Re: BSDLive: FreeBSD Mini CD

> http://www.offmyserver.com/bsdlive Nice idea, Thanks Matt. Downloading now. Could you put an MD5 on that page too please ? I'll have to see what mini blanks cost in the shops, & then keep a couple in wallet to give away periodically) -- Julian Stacey. Consultant Unix Net & Sys. Eng., Munich.

Re: Draft FreeBSD-6 release announcement or magazine article.

Scott Long wrote: > Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > Release Engineers, > > + Various CCs > > Is there a draft FreeBSD-6 release announcement please, > > to base a 2 page magazine article on ? I only know of: > >http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freeb

Re: Michigan User Group

Perhaps better repost to list freebsd-user-groups@ not advocacy@ http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-user-groups "Michael W. Lucas" wrote: > > Will's dad provided a place for us to meet regularly, and when Will > left we lost that place. The key to a successful user group

Re: Beastie Pumpkin 2005

Yanek Korff wrote: > To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org > Happy Halloween :) Cross posting is deprecated. Halloween is not BSD technology. -- Julian Stacey. Consultant Unix Net & Sys. Eng., Munich. http://berklix.com Mail in Ascii, HTML=spam. Ihr Rauch = meine alle

Re: BSD booth

> It would also be if someone in Bulgaria could translate the > stuff at http://www.allbsd.de/src/Flyer/FreeBSD/PDF/ (Please > note that we currently work hard to improve those flyers and add > 10 more, work is progressing fast). There's English & German versions of a BSD leaflet at http:/

Re: KDE marketing survey

"Henrik Nordin" wrote: > --===1880881416== > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed > Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 > Content-Disposition: inline > > IEhlbGxvLAoKClRoaXMgbWVzc2FnZSBpcyBmcm9tIHRoZSBLREUgcHJvbW90aW9uYWwgY29tbXVu Unquotable binary deleted, I'm not sur

Re: What sort of market does FreeBSD provide ... ?

> Something just for FreeBSD users (well, all *BSD users should be invited, Why not co-operate with Linux guys on this ? there's Free Net Open Dragon, & there' a load of Linuxes too, & a lot of the admin & design would be the same to collect stats regardless, .. & a lot of the hard admin tool d

Re: Win4BSD Pro Desktop Released

"Dan Perlman" wrote: > Dear FreeBSD Community, > > Thank you all for the warm reception we received during our beta period. > > We're now pleased to announce that Win4BSD Pro Desktop has now been released > and is available for download and purchase. Win4BSD Pro Desktop allows I suggest you ge

Re: CDROM-Artwork

Oliver Fromme wrote: > Deb Goodkin wrote: > > [...] > > 2. In the description on the back of the DVD case and CD sleeve, only > > use the "r in circle" for the first use of the FreeBSD mark. You can > > probably do the same with Unix. > > No, that will be insufficient. It is required to add

Re: CDROM-Artwork

Oliver Fromme wrote: > [Trimmed Cc list.] > > Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > 2, Page 1899 has it all capitals. All through the book, the .rof > > macro generating the automatic footer does it as caps. Bell sold > > Unix through a tedious chain of companies t

Re: Anyone know of a pre ready presentation for Alternatives to Microsoft?

Continuance from thread starting: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-advocacy/2006-November/003003.html "Jan Husar" wrote: > Hello Julian, > > I can take a look of something which i used in past but is mostly > alternatives on workstation level for public administration (cos I'm > solving

Re: Vision impaired software on FreeBSD?

"Mr. Jim Vaglia" wrote: > What assistive technology if any will run on FreeBSD? Is this > what Mac and Voice Over is based on? Many blind people are mostlikely > not interested in paying high cost of Windows Vista. Thanks for > spreading the word among the public if all people with physical > disab

Re: Vision impaired software on FreeBSD?

"Mr. Jim Vaglia" wrote: > Thanks, my main reason for inquiring are for pc and Apple manufactures who > may be thinking of offering free bsd to Vista and Leppard as a alternative, > not really interested in messing up my current configurations unless > computer manufactures force a install downlo

Re: Capital Area BSD Users Group meeting

"Todd C. Miller" wrote: > The Capital Area BSD Users Group will be having its monthly meeting > on Tues. February 27th, 6:30pm - 8:30pm at SPARTA in Columbia, MD. > > Jason Dixon will be doing a presentation on recommended technologies > in a modern *BSD-based mailserver. The proposed setup inclu

Re: Seeking a FreeBSD users group in Columbus, Ohio

> I do not know of one, but I figure there are three of us here, and I > could talk to a few others if we would like to start one. > The question would be: > Columbus Ohio, > Central Ohio, > Ohio > or try to attach with several: midwest? [EMAIL PROTECTED] List to use to monitor & announce

Re: Lack of FreeBSD coverage in the UK media

Paul Waring wrote: > I've noticed over the past few years that there has been a growing > number of Linux magazines available in the UK (Linux Format, Linux > Magazine and Linux User/Developer are the ones that immediately spring What one can leverage with magazines depends on local turnover/ s

Re: Lack of FreeBSD coverage in the UK media

Paul Waring wrote: > Daniel Seuffert wrote: > > But don't forget: It's hard work and you need people doing this work. > > That's the problematic part and that's the main reason imho why we > > don't have more media attention... > > Is there not a project (other than this mailing list) within the w

Re: Libre Software Meeting in Amiens, France, 10-14 July

ros wrote: Rodrigo, cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perhaps you cc's advocacy@ in French by accident ? If not: It will be unintelligable to many on advocacy@ who may speak only Russian & English, Italian & English, Japanese & English & German, Korean & English etc. Please repost in generic English. Amer

Re: Libre Software Meeting in Amiens, France, 10-14 July

Dag-Erling =?utf-8?Q?Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= wrote: > "Julian H. Stacey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > American is the industry language. (eg Korean Mboard BIOSes boot > > with American not English key layouts etc, I'm British, lucky enough > > to read Ger

Re: Re. Anyone know of a pre ready presentation for Alternatives to Microsoft?

Dru wrote: > On Wed, 16 May 2007, Julian Stacey wrote: > > Ref. My > > Anyone know of a pre- ready presentation for Alternatives To Microsoft ? > > In > > Mon Nov 27 12:05:26 PST 2006 > > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-advocacy/2006-November/003003.html > > Wed Dec 20 11:46:12

Re: Google tech talk: "How the FreeBSD Project Works"

Edwin Groothuis wrote: > On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 08:15:23PM +0100, Robert Watson wrote: > > While at Google a couple of weeks ago, I gave my "How the FreeBSD Project > > Works" talk. The video from that is now online: > > > > http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-4400856579609253323 This

Re: Google tech talk: "How the FreeBSD Project Works"

Re. > > > http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-4400856579609253323 My download got truncated, (& browser didnt report it) I downloaded twice more & compareed. Suggestion for [EMAIL PROTECTED] : add to page: Size: 320282390 bytes MD5:d35635e0c8de79f34189959dbe170fb2 --

Re: What Linux^W distribution would you most like to see supported on a ThinkPad?

> Lenovo is asking this at > and, yes!, FreeBSD is a proposed choice. > > ATM, the first choice is "Anyone that refuses to carry binary-only > drivers, so that all others will also benefit, as it will require > documented hardware", which is also a ver

Re: Independent security analysis of operating systems/applications

"Doug Poland" wrote: > Hello, > > Recently some friends of mine have started to cite "studies" that > assert Unix/Linux operating systems are now the most frequently > attacked platforms. My friends are not without bias, they work for a > training firm that almost exclusively sells training for >

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [ISN] Top Ten Reasons Why Ubuntu, Is Best for Enterprise Use]

"David Naylor" wrote: > I really, really must be missing something. Could someone please > explain this to me: > Why use open source if you do not even compile from source. All Linux Some reasons some might choose to use Open Source based: Zero Purchase Price. Zero wait time to

Re: [Laptop] Battery Time

> Performance, Stability, and Reliability. I have also learned (from my > laptop) that FreeBSD is also a Green OS, as it causes the hardware to > use less power than other systems. If anyone has right contacts in eg HP/Compaq &/or US EPA (Environmental Protection Agency ?) & other national age

Re: Events calendar looking bare

> From: "Murray Stokely" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I know there must be more events scheduled in 2008 so far besides just > AsiaBSDCon and BSDCan. Are there other events with a FreeBSD presence > that should be added here? > > http://www.freebsd.org/events/ German Unix User Group has its spring co

Re: Current Gentoo user

Chad Perrin wrote: > On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 06:12:55AM -0800, Grant wrote: > > What about skype, wengo, and vmware workstation? Do they work on FreeBSD? > I have no idea, I'm afraid. Hopefully someone else on the list can > answer that. I've never used any of the three. A VOIP (ie Skype) Aster

Re: Current Gentoo user

Grant wrote: > > >>> It has recently come to my attention that FreeBSD is "similar" to > > >>> Gentoo Linux. I've been a Gentoo user for about 5 years and I love > > >>> the concept, but it feels like the project is slowing down. I like to > > >>> learn/use/know one OS for server, media system, l

Re: Current Gentoo user

Grant wrote: > > I misinterpreted "advocacy" then. I apologize. No prob. We have tons of lists, just a question of using the best one. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/eresources.html#ERESOURCES-MAIL http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy http://

Re: New BUG?

> What you think, should i start the papers and talking to directives in > the university? > Thank you for any advice you can give me. People with experience running BSD user groups are on an adjacent list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] better ask there instead. -- Julian Stacey. Munich Computer C

Re: Study BSD

Thierry Thomas wrote: > Hello, > > The site contains educational videos. > ATM there is only videos about NetBSD... It requires Flash support in browser, subject of continuing frequent pain, especially on AMD & non 386 & between versions. If they're that daft to rely on/ p

Re: FAQ Interactive, Are Video Games Good? A Non-Gamer's Perspective

"=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jos=E9_Manuel_Molina_Pascual?=" wrote: > I'm not a gamer today but I was a > moderate gamer during the late 80's and 90's. Aargh ! Please move subject from [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks. -- Julian Stacey: BSDUnixLinux C Prog Admin SysEng Consult Munich www.berklix

Re: BSDCon Barcelona'08

I started to forward this to a friend who has a BSD friend in Spain, but your un-necessary base64 comes out nbadly on EXMH. If you fix it & repost without base64 it will make it easier for people to forward. Base64 will also Not come out right on FreeBSD web mail archives (so will not be picked u

Re: National mailinglists - why isn't it there yet?

Ed Schouten wrote: > > --WYTEVAkct0FjGQmd > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > Hello everyone, > > I was just speaking with another dutch FreeBSD user (and developer) > about FreeBSD mailing lists. > > I kno

Re: National mailinglists - why isn't it there yet?

Edwin Groothuis wrote: > > As a mailman-owner hosting about 60 lists, I can tell you that it > is possible in mailman to set the owner of a list to a person who > wants to have the list and let them handle the bounces and unknown > messages. Ah Yes, sorry, I was forgetting that, all thre lists I

Re: National mailinglists - why isn't it there yet?

> hosts mailing lists for a variety of domains and they are willing to > host Dutch FreeBSD mailing lists as well. > > What steps should we take to get the domain delegated to their system? I 'spose top owner is [EMAIL PROTECTED] name space already in place: I'm tired, & tmp. forgotten Bind deta

Re: Dell Servers I have installed

Szilveszter Adam wrote: > On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 08:52:25PM -0400, james barbone wrote: > > Please indicate the cost or the source for a basic FreeBSD 6.2 > > OS on a CD ? Is it possible to clone another mail server with > > this same Disk ? 6.2 has been declared End Of Line by security officer.

Re: Dell Servers I have installed

=?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= wrote: > "Julian H. Stacey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > 7.0 exists too, but as you (james) dont know much about FreeBSD, use 6.3 > > instead for now, until 7.1 come out. > > Excuse me, but what, exactly, is wrong about

Re: Help with a presentation.

"TooMany Secrets" wrote: > --===0759980930== > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 > Content-Disposition: inline > > SGkhCgpJIG5lZWQgdG8gbWFrZSBhICJmcmVlYnNkIGFkdm9jYWN5IiBwcmVzZW50YXRpb24gdGhp > cyB3ZWVrZW5kIGludG8gdGhlCkJTRENvbiBCYXJjZWxvbmEnMD

Re: why no Oracle on FreeBSD ?

Saifi Khan wrote: > Hi: > > This is a newbie query. > > i noticed that there is no Oracle available for FreeBSD > http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/database/index.html > > What could be the reason for that ? Best ask direct of commercial application vendor Oracle. IE wave money

Re: why no Oracle on FreeBSD ?

> > > i noticed that there is no Oracle available for FreeBSD > > > http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/database/index.html > > > > > > What could be the reason for that ? > > > > Best ask direct of commercial application vendor Oracle. > > IE wave money under Oracle's nose & ask t

Re: why no Oracle on FreeBSD ?

> > Most unlikely. Ask Oracle & tell advocacy@ what you find out. > > I'd bet perceived market share & demand as ever, ie Money. > > Hi Julian: > > Here is the response on the Oracle forum thread to my posting, > > """ > FreeBSD is a kernel not used in any extant operating system with > the sole

Re: FreeBSD gear (Clothes, machines)

Allen wrote: > PS; not to sound weird, but does anyone here have any neat hardware > configurations? Like a machine running FreeBSD that has like CD/DVD/Tape > /Cool hardware you're proud of? Thanks! http://berklix.com/scanjet/ FreeBSD inside a scanner. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey: BSD U

Re: FreeBSD gear (Clothes, machines)

Hi, > From: Allen Allen wrote: > >> PS; not to sound weird, but does anyone here have any neat hardware > >> configurations? Like a machine running FreeBSD that has like CD/DVD/Tape > >> /Cool hardware you're proud of? Thanks! > > > > http://berklix.com/scanjet/ FreeBSD inside a sca

Re: Why no SAP nor DB2 on FreeBSD ?

> Thanks for providing the perspective on the issue. > > Here is a rather straight query, "how do we grow the userbase" ? IMO enough noise. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey: BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Mail ASCII plain text not HTML & Base64. http://asci

Re: 2008 EuroBSDCon PDF and Audio ?

Hi, Reference: > From: Saifi Khan > Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:35:30 +0530 (IST) > Message-id: Saifi Khan wrote: > Hi: > > Every year the EuroBSDCon has a new host site and the slides and > audio/video seem to go missing after a while. > > i'm trying to locate the stuff in

Re: leveraging FOSS, especially FreeBSD

Hi, > From: Don Wilde Don Wilde wrote: > http://www.engineeringjobfuture.com/articles/leverage/open-source-software Article contains "The lawsuit was bitterly contested, but finally resolved. Everything developed before 1970 was declared by a judge to be open for

Re: leveraging FOSS, especially FreeBSD

ime(3))." 1970 in context quoted below ? No. > On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > >> From:         Don Wilde > > Don Wilde wrote: > >> http://www.engineeringjobfuture.com/articles/leverage/open-source-software > > Article cont

Re: why BSDs got no love

Matthew Seaman wrote: > ... an installer as > a > CLI program that reads in a fairly simple fixed script or language to do > the > installation work, and have separate Curses and/or X based programs to al > low > users to create the installation script interactively. I admit being seduced at t

Re: why BSDs got no love

Randi Harper wrote: > On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 6:50 AM, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > Peer Schaefer wrote: > > > >> BTW, the Debian installer consists (a) of a modular, frontend agnostic > >> backend, and (b) different frontend "plugins", e.g. a curses-fr

http://bsdfund.org/contact/

Hi advocacy@ people >From browser ports/www/dillo side bar of LinuxFund I found: http://www.linuxfund.org/ -> http://bsdfund.org/card/-> http://bsdfund.org/contact/ Names of organisers Michael Dexter & David Mandel are not familiar to me. Wondering if a competi

Re: http://bsdfund.org/contact/

Hi, Reference: > From: Steven Kreuzer > Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 17:09:23 -0500 > Message-id: <4913ef8e-a6f2-45b0-9dd0-e324ab3b5...@freebsd.org> Steven Kreuzer wrote: > > On Jan 4, 2010, at 9:49 AM, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > > Hi advocacy@ peop

Re: http://bsdfund.org/contact/

Hi Steven > Not sure what happened in your mail reader, but there should be a "." between > "bsdtalk175-bsdfund-with-michael-dexter" and "html" Whoops, tired else I should have spotted that thanks. http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=10803+0+current/freebsd-advocacy shows yours as

Magazine article authors sought for a Linux mag that would take BSD

Hi advoc...@freebsd.org A Linux magazine in Munich Germany is advertising to pay for articles on OS's other than Linux, eg could include BSD. They posted to a Munich Solaris group (forwarded below). He wrote in German to that list, but he says articles acceptable in English too. If interested cont

Re: Website Add Request

> Hello FreeBSDers, > >I am asking you to add our ArabBSD website in website list supporting > FreeBSD. We have summer training for grapping FreeBSD developers which will > start by the next week. All the materials for our summer training will be > available on the website. We will start uploa

http://www.softwarefreedomday.org global city teams recruitment

Hi advoc...@freebsd.org http://www.softwarefreedomday.org are recruiting city teams to promote Free Software globally on Sept 17th. Any teams that get registered in the next week or just over will also get a free shipment of proomotional goodies. Inc Ubuntu CDs. yes, not the right note ideally f

Re: Netcraft reliability survey

Mason Loring Bliss wrote: > Attached, Not attached. (Mailman discards attachments on various lists). > please find a screenshot of the current front page of Netcraft. > This can be seen here: > http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2011/07/08/most-reliable-hosting-company-sites-in-june-2011.ht

Re: Netcraft reliability survey

t 01:53:29PM +0200, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > > Not attached. (Mailman discards attachments on various lists). > > I was referring to my message's state on leaving my system. I of course can't > speak to what external software does to it. > > > > > p

Re: Netcraft reliability survey

Mason Loring Bliss cc advocacy@ > From: Mason Loring Bliss > Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 12:57:30 -0400 > Message-id: <20110810165730.gd2...@blisses.org> Mason Loring Bliss wrote: > On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 06:37:44PM +0200, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > &g

Re: Netcraft reliability survey

"Julian H. Stacey" wrote: > as it's thus clear one of us should do > work you refuse. > Ref.: > > If you will not install FreeBSD, Use http://www.freebsd.org/send-pr.html , > > Do neither to prove yourself irrelevant to FreeBSD as no page would

Re: Netcraft reliability survey

Jared Barneck wrote: > > "Julian H. Stacey" wrote: > > I found a freebsd.org page where it could be added, & ran a send-pr > > I'll post ID when I get auto reply. > > Thanks Julian! Thanks to you too Jared, I see you were next volunteer up to bat, well

BSD media is going to 200 cities for http://softwarefreedomday.org

Hi advoc...@freebsd.org BSD media is in transit to 200 global cities for http://softwarefreedomday.org in 23 days However it &/or other BSD media will need copying to keep up with Linux as theres a Lot more free Ubuntu CDROMs going out at the same time, (a question of what richest sponsor pays mos

Re: BSD media is going to 200 cities for http://softwarefreedomday.org

Hi, Mark Lein wrote: > On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > > Hi advoc...@freebsd.org > > BSD media is in transit to 200 global cities for > > http://softwarefreedomday.org in 23 days > > > > However it &/or other BSD media will n

Re: Most secure Operating-System?

Hi Alec > If my project proposal is successful, I will be implementing this > system to replace a windows environment at one of the largest banks > in the country. Which country ? There's about 190 ! eg Luxembourg has lots of banks ;-) If you are proposing OpenBSD, presumably you first poste

[SFD-discuss] SFD 2011: very hot! (fwd)

Anyone have local in- country media or press release contact addresses for http://www.softwarefreedomday.org Which is this Saturday: 17 Sept 2011. Some countries listed below & some on graphical map at http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/map/index.php?year=2011 don't have contacts yet.

Re: T-Dose 5&6 November

Rob Snelders wrote: > Hi All, > > The 5th and 6th November is the 6th edition of T-Dose. This is a free > Open-Source Conference held in the city of Eindhoven, The Netherlands. > On this conference we are trying to hold a open-source > "software-market". We would like to ask if FreeBSD is intere

Re: virtualbox-ose on FBSD

Hi, Reference: > From: Paul Lambert > Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 23:50:32 -0500 > Message-id: > Paul Lambert wrote: > I have completed installing VB on FBSD with good results to report. Though > it did require several days of researching various system tweaks the up and > runn

Re: Suggested article to be referenced from FreeBSD Home Page

Hi, Hans Ottevanger wrote: > Hi advocates, > > This article > > http://www.infoworld.com/d/data-center/why-arent-you-using-freebsd-178119?page=0,1 > > was "discussed" on Slashdot shortly after it appeared. > > Still, I think the article is of a quite reasonable quality and is good > publicity

Re: [Fwd: ] The inquiry about EFF

Hi, > I think the idea of inquiring about the EFF licences to be a good one > but I hardly think this email is well written. Are you a native > speaker of English? toredhiddenuser@ seem a troll. I dropped its CC. You'r right, it's not native English. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix

Re: AW: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

> FreeBSD should position itself as the best product for newcomers to the > UNIX-world. No. It could damage FreeBSD. At present we largely just need to educate newcomers from eg Linux etc (who already know some Unix), We don't need to be swamped with noise from lots of clueless Microsoft zeroes

Re: 20 significant FreeBSD events?

"Jeremy C. Reed" wrote: > I'd like to write an article (a lot later this year) celebrating > FreeBSD's upcoming great milestone by briefly summarizing the 20 most > significant events in FreeBSD's life. It doesn't have to be one event > per each year, but that would be an interesting thing to d

Re: Verisign Announces vBSDCon

"Miller, Vincent (Rick)" wrote: > Hi all, > > Verisign, Inc., who has become involved with FreeBSD over the last 3 years, > would like to announce a user and developer conference to be held Oct 25 – > 27, 2013 at the Dulles Hyatt in Dulles, VA. More information on this > conference is availabl

Re: About FreeBSD.org visitors

Hi, Eitan Adler wrote: > Here is an overview of the people that visit FreeBSD.org: > http://people.freebsd.org/~eadler/files/Report-10.01.pdf > > Some takeaways: > > - More than half (60%) the people that come to our website leave > without going to another page (called 'bouncing'). However the

Re: About FreeBSD.org visitors

Christopher Henderson wrote: > Hello Unix Fans, > > I'm an on again/off again BSD/Linux user. I'll spend a few years in one, > then > the other, etc. I'm getting the FreeBSD itch again so I visited the website. > > One big problem for me is that there is no obvious link from the front page

Re: [FreeBSD-Announce] vBSDcon: October 25 - 27. 2013 in Herndon, VA

Steven Chamberlain wrote: > On 14/10/13 14:20, Miller, Vincent (Rick) wrote: > > Just a friendly reminder vBSDcon is less than 2 weeks away > > These reminders via FreeBSD-Announce are getting to be annoying... Agreed. On too many lists too. It's abuse on announce@freebsd, It is not an announ

Re: vBSDcon: October 25 - 27. 2013 in Herndon, VA

"Miller, Vincent (Rick)" wrote: > Just a friendly reminder vBSDcon is less than 2 weeks away from October 25 – > 27, 2013 in Herndon, VA. Online registrations are open for 9 more days and > will close on October 23, 2013. On-site registrations will be available > throughout the entirety of vBS

Re: Correction for

Beeblebrox wrote: > The post below shows up at #7 in google search for "freebsd pf version". > The title of the post is "Do not use FreeBSD 9.0 as a PF firewall " http://www.pantz.org/software/pf/do_not_use_freebsd_9.0_as_a_pf_firewall.html "Posted on 02-20-2012 02:59:21 UTC | Updated on 03-29-20

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