Re: freebsd-advocacy Digest, Vol 124, Issue 3

2005-11-03 Thread Nicole
omeone said. It had more character and could be regognized even in outline form. Yes it wasn't as "friendly" as the Linux penquin and some with narrow minds had issues with it, but this doesn't compare to either. It's the BSD version of "new coke". What was wrong

Re: freebsd-advocacy Digest, Vol 124, Issue 3

2005-11-03 Thread Nicole
On 04-Nov-05 My Homeland Security "observers" reported that ac said: > Nicole, you're too emotional, I think. Nobody's gonna force you to make > new tattoo. Nobody's even gonna force you to use the logo, if you > dislike it. I know that. I was trying to conv

Re: EV1 Servers makes me sick

2006-10-03 Thread Nicole
t who has more market share, Windows. FreeBSD has tried to do everything, whereas Linux went after the desktop crowd and grew the server aspect via sheer userbase demand. When speaking about unix or should I just say, anything not Windows or Mac to most people, Linux has become l

Re: sysinstall vs BSD Installer

2007-02-18 Thread Nicole
ng? Just like with the barrage of annoying adverts these days, just because something can be done, doesn't mean its the right thing to do. Nicole -- Music: http://www.myspace.com/theparts Music2: http://www.drumslayer.com Words: http://www.unixgirl.com Images: http://www.devianti

Re: sysinstall vs BSD Installer

2007-02-18 Thread Nicole
ith the barrage of annoying adverts these days, just because something can be done, doesn't mean its the right thing to do. Nicole ___ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Dell is asking what free OS to preinstall

2007-03-14 Thread Nicole
y? Because we are not well known enough and FreeBSD user companies do not demand "official support". Which propagates the problem, since all you see on supported OS pages are sometimes everything but FreeBSD. So there is even less exposure. Yet we have great support for that product! So V

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

2007-11-20 Thread Nicole
tant reminders of pkg_add, etc) Also, as usual, they might try BSD but manage to have one of those PC's that BSD doesn't support well, and just give up without really trying, as long as linux installs pain free. (altho I think its more than this, they really just like the Debian "p

Re: FreeBSD not popular in Asia?

2006-09-14 Thread Olivier Nicole
> Check out http://www.bsdstats.org ... Republic of Korea is about to push > the US out of first place, but there are *zero* FreeBSD boxes reporting > from there ... DragonFly is first, then NetBSD and then OpenBSD ... 6 days later: Thailand jumped from 12 machines to 110... ahead of France and