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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!MathWorks.Com!news.duke.edu!godot.cc.duq.edu!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!bb3.andrew.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!aw2t+ From: "Alex R.N. Wetmore" <aw2t+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: DooM for NetBSD, will it become a reality Date: Fri, 23 Sep 1994 21:06:44 -0400 Organization: Senior, Math/Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 62 Message-ID: <4iUriYm00iV9A=Zn1C@andrew.cmu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: po5.andrew.cmu.edu From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) >In article <35rbnt$6jv@goliat.eik.bme.hu> pink@fsz.bme.hu writes: >>NetBSD already has four (more or less working) compat options (sunos, ultrix, >>svr4, ibcs2) and it has an excellent way of adding more of these. I'm sure >>FreeBSD has something similar. I think support for Linux binaries would be great. >Your idea sounds great !! > >However, I think that spreading the NetBSD or FreeBSD word also now >falls into the shoulders of the users. This also includes harrasing, >pestering or driving crazy vendors to include support for *BSD systems. I think the BSD camps really need to spread the word as well. but... >Causally browsing on the net, I tend to see linux activists pushing >around linux. For instance, in comp.sys.intel, I spotted a headline >stating: "Linux rules the net". Yeah, I know that is sounds rediculous. Please don't go around doing this. I don't want to see BSD activists around the world being a**holes on usenet trying to spread the word of BSD. People doing that for Linux are on the biggest negatives about Linux for me in general. If users and developers at Microsoft starting going around on the net saying that Windows NT is the greatest thing in the world since the wheel (without having the facts to back them up and discussing it in inappropriate places) everyone on the net would have a fit. For some reason lots of people on the net seem to think that doing this for non-commercial groups is fine and dandy. >In comp.graphics.raytracing, a couple of the linux activitist where >trying to teach the DOS people how can they do ray-tracing using povray >and still read news... This is a lot more helpful, but I don't know why people always centralize discussions like this around Linux. I'm sure the exact same thing could be done on *BSD or any of the unicies out there. >Also, I tend to see many more linux posters adverstising linux in their >signature. Thats just part of it... blah. Most signatures on the net are already bloated, we really don't need everyone adding another line (or ten) saying that BSD is the best thing in the world. I think we should support people removing their signature file or at least trimming them down, not filling them up with their random opinions. >A couple of months ago, in the "Wire", magazine, I spotted a short article >on linux -- it also had a cool linux logo. Articles in real magazines (except Dr. Dobbs, they've done a lot of the BSD community already) would be great. Anyone know of any contacts at magazines where BSD articles could be mentioned? I've already taken a policy of writing email to people who write articles about Free unicies and then only mention Linux. Its really time for more of the world to become aware of BSD, but lets not shove it down their throats with silly tactics. One of the nicest things about the BSD community is its (well, usually) mature attitude on the net. I don't want to see that disappear. alex@phred.org