Re: Fwd: Dell is asking what free OS to preinstall
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 by Canonical Ltd. (see http://www.canonical.com/projects/ubuntu). DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fwd: Dell is asking what free OS to preinstall
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 by Canonical Ltd. (see http://www.canonical.com/projects/ubuntu). The Debian Project is an association of individuals who have made common cause to create a free operating system. This operating system that we have created is called Debian GNU/Linux, or simply Debian for short. Debian was begun in August 1993 by Ian Murdock, as a new distribution which would be made openly, in the spirit of Linux and GNU. Debian was meant to be carefully and conscientiously put together, and to be maintained and supported with similar care. It started as a small, tightly-knit group of Free Software hackers, and gradually grew to become a large, well-organized community of developers and users. http://www.debian.org/intro/about ___ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fwd: Dell is asking what free OS to preinstall
Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dag-Erling Smørgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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 by Canonical Ltd. (see http://www.canonical.com/projects/ubuntu). The Debian Project is an association of individuals who have made common cause to create a free operating system. This operating system that we have created is called Debian GNU/Linux, or simply Debian for short. Ubuntu is not Debian. It is a derivative of Debian maintained by a commercial entity. The only difference between Canonical and RedHat or Novell in that respect is that Canonical charge only for support, not for the software. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fwd: Dell is asking what free OS to preinstall
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 for preinstalled FreeBSD, it might get them thinking about FreeBSD and looking into providing support and especially drivers in the future. Tue Mar 13 21:28:11 CET 2007 That URL http://www.dell.com/linuxsurvey results in: http://www.dell.com/content/topics/survey.aspx/ss?ssid=OeAjvuto67E~s=corp We have encountered a problem while processing the page you requested. If you experience any technical problems with your shopping experience at dell.com, please contact one of our trained sales representatives at 1-800-WWW-DELL to quickly complete your transaction. Or contact us about the problem you have encountered. Their website is being slashdotted right now. When you do finally get to the survey select Community Supported: Ubuntu for the last question. Ubuntu is based on Debian... Debian in many respects is equivalent to FreeBSD. Also... For question 2 Which systems should we prioritize on for Linux factory installation? Put all of the notebooks at highest priority. ___ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fwd: Dell is asking what free OS to preinstall
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 and especially drivers in the future. Tue Mar 13 21:28:11 CET 2007 That URL http://www.dell.com/linuxsurvey results in: http://www.dell.com/content/topics/survey.aspx/ss?ssid=OeAjvuto67E~s=corp We have encountered a problem while processing the page you requested. If you experience any technical problems with your shopping experience at dell.com, please contact one of our trained sales representatives at 1-800-WWW-DELL to quickly complete your transaction. Or contact us about the problem you have encountered. Their website is being slashdotted right now. When you do finally get to the survey select Community Supported: Ubuntu for the last question. Ubuntu is based on Debian... Debian in many respects is equivalent to FreeBSD. ___ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fwd: Dell is asking what free OS to preinstall
I was under the impression that of the Linuces out there, Slackware was most BSD-ish? How is Debian like BSD? WMM 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 for preinstalled FreeBSD, it might get them thinking about FreeBSD and looking into providing support and especially drivers in the future. Tue Mar 13 21:28:11 CET 2007 That URL http://www.dell.com/linuxsurvey results in: http://www.dell.com/content/topics/survey.aspx/ss?ssid=OeAjvuto67E~s=corp We have encountered a problem while processing the page you requested. If you experience any technical problems with your shopping experience at dell.com, please contact one of our trained sales representatives at 1-800-WWW-DELL to quickly complete your transaction. Or contact us about the problem you have encountered. Their website is being slashdotted right now. When you do finally get to the survey select Community Supported: Ubuntu for the last question. Ubuntu is based on Debian... Debian in many respects is equivalent to FreeBSD. ___ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://warrenmyers.com God may not play dice with the universe, but something strange is going on with the prime numbers. --Paul Erdős It's not possible. We are the type of people who have everything in our favor going against us. --Ben Jarhvi, Short Circuit 2 ___ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
