Re: Surviving yahoo's frontage and App Store featured listing

2014-08-14 Thread Matt Olander
On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 7:24 AM, Seo Townsend seotowns...@icloud.com wrote: I am a developer at fittr, we make a fitness app that was recently featured on the yahoo homepage and app store top featured listings. We are a very small company with a small budget. We were not prepared for the

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-04-02 Thread Matt Olander
On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 5:24 AM, Jordan Hubbard j...@ixsystems.com wrote: On Apr 1, 2014, at 10:11 PM, Matt Olander m...@ixsystems.com wrote: This is like trying to predict automobile technology and dominant car-makers by 1905. There's always room for competition. Take a look at what's

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-04-01 Thread Matt Olander
On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 12:11 AM, Jordan Hubbard j...@mail.turbofuzz.com wrote: On Apr 1, 2014, at 10:46 AM, Eitan Adler li...@eitanadler.com wrote: That is why on this date I propose that we cease competing on the desktop market. FreeBSD should declare 2014 to be year of the Linux desktop

FreeBSD Wallpaper with widescreen resolutions

2011-11-21 Thread Matt Olander
Hey folks, We ended up making a few new wallpapers here at work for the next release for resolutions that are a bit more modern. Here's a link: http://pcbsd.org/get-it/artwork/freebsd/wallpaper Feel free to spread the word, host the files elsewhere, etc. Cheers, -matt

Re: FreeBSD gear (Clothes, machines)

2009-09-25 Thread Matt Olander
Sorry for the top post but I only have some quick comments ;-) Great post, Allen. I'm glad you had a good experience with the mall, Allen. In fact, you are correct, we also host the Slackware site/store for Patrick and handle all the production details and shipping logistics. It's better for

SAVED!! (was Re: Save BSD magazine)

2009-07-07 Thread Matt Olander
2009/7/1 Matt Olander m...@ixsystems.com: We are in contact with them in an attempt to save the magazine. Not having the ability to order and pay for a subscription online really hurt them, I think. This is why we started offering it through the FreeBSD Mall. The BSD magazine is available

Re: Save BSD magazine

2009-07-02 Thread Matt Olander
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Dru Lavignedrulavi...@sympatico.ca wrote: Does FreeBSD Mall ship internationally? If so, should we suggest that people interested in saving the mag can order there? Absolutely. If you can't find the mag locally, order from the Mall and we'll report final

Fwd: Save BSD magazine

2009-07-01 Thread Matt Olander
We are in contact with them in an attempt to save the magazine. Not having the ability to order and pay for a subscription online really hurt them, I think. This is why we started offering it through the FreeBSD Mall. The BSD magazine is available at Borders and Barnes Noble. We'll be doing our

Re: Fwd: Save BSD magazine

2009-07-01 Thread Matt Olander
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Randi Harperra...@freebsd.org wrote: On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Guillermo Antonio Amaral Bastidas gama...@amaral.com.mx wrote: On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 10:39:34AM -0700, Matt Olander wrote: We are in contact with them in an attempt to save the magazine

Re: FreeBSD boot camp @ Fosdem 2009

2009-03-04 Thread Matt Olander
On Mar 4, 2009, at 4:15 PM, Rodrigo OSORIO (ros) wrote: Hi everyone, You can found here some of the pictures I took during the fosdem 2009 event it may illustrate all the fantastic work done by Daniel and his crew during this looong weekend Regards The pictures :

Re: LWE - booth?

2008-08-04 Thread Matt Olander
On Aug 4, 2008, at 8:14 AM, Dan Langille wrote: Anyone doing the booth thing at LWE? Hey Dan, Is that LinuxWorld Expo in SF? We'll have a pretty big presence there this year. Besides having about 7 people at the booth, we arranged to give out a PC-BSD CD to every attendee to LinuxWorld

Re: Lack of Flash support is no longer acceptable. Bounty established...

2008-06-19 Thread Matt Olander
. In the meantime, just in case, it could be worthwhile to further our support of linux-flash9 under FreeBSD. best, -matt -- Matt Olander CTO, iXsystems - Servers for Open Source http://www.iXsystems.com Public Relations, The FreeBSD Project http://www.FreeBSD.org BSD

Re: FreeBSD Presence at NYCBSDCon

2008-03-20 Thread Matt Olander
On Mar 20, 2008, at 10:57 AM, Steven Kreuzer wrote: Greetings- I am writing on behalf of the admin team that is currently organizing NYCBSDCon 2008. We currently have Columbia University booked for October 11th and 12th of this year and among everything else going on, I would like to get

Re: [OT] Helpful Advocacy...

2007-12-29 Thread Matt Olander
On Dec 29, 2007, at 3:29 PM, Matt Olander wrote: On Dec 29, 2007, at 4:53 AM, TooMany Secrets wrote: Ucranian President making a note about KDE and FreeBSD: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyOWzKr0GRU Great! Can anybody translate this? Nevermind, I see a synopsis under About This Video

MeetBSD in Poland!

2007-11-09 Thread Matt Olander
Just a reminder, MeetBSD starts next week November 17-18 in Warsaw, Poland. There is still time to register :-) http://2007.meetbsd.org/en/ best, -matt -- Matt Olander CTO, iXsystems - Servers for Open Source  http://www.iXsystems.com Public Relations, The FreeBSD Project         http

Hitting the Streets

2007-08-13 Thread Matt Olander
-- Matt Olander CTO, iXsystems - Servers for Open Source  http://www.iXsystems.com Public Relations, The FreeBSD Project         http://www.FreeBSD.org BSD on the Desktop!                             http://www.pcbsd.org Phone: (408)943-4100 ext. 113                     Fax: (408)943-4101

Re: FreeBSD user statistics

2007-07-31 Thread Matt Olander
On Tuesday 31 July 2007 5:21 pm, Chad Perrin wrote: Are there any projects out there collecting data on numbers of FreeBSD users? I'm interested in pretty much anything along those lines, including analogs to Fedora's smolt reporting software, the Linux Counter http://counter.li.org/, and so

Re: The sorry state of open source today

2007-04-19 Thread Matt Olander
currently works. best, -matt -- Matt Olander CTO, iXsystems - Servers for Open Source http://www.iXsystems.com Public Relations, The FreeBSD Project http://www.FreeBSD.org BSD on the Desktop! http://www.pcbsd.org Phone: (408)943-4100 ext. 113

BSD + Adobe Flash News Item

2007-04-18 Thread Matt Olander
either. Hopefully, now that we've got the right contacts at Adobe, it will be easier to pursue the port. The more people that can pick this news up in their blogs, the better. Also, if someone can post it to the News section of the FreeBSD site, great! -matt -- Matt Olander CTO, iXsystems

Re: BSD + Adobe Flash News Item

2007-04-18 Thread Matt Olander
Marc Fonvieille wrote: On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 08:59:45AM -0700, Matt Olander wrote: While Adobe hasn't agreed to port Flash to FreeBSD (yet!), they have agreed to re-distribution of the Flash player. I obtained 2 separate re-distribution agreements, one for PC-BSD and one for the FreeBSD

Re: allBSD's Stop the Blob Campaign

2007-03-21 Thread Matt Olander
to the firmware lincense, don't use it. This *is* redistribution of the firmware, exactly as you suggested, and it will have no detrimental impact in ou attempts to negotiate further. You are doing the world a disservice by spreading FUD. -matt -- Matt Olander CTO, iXsystems - Servers for Open

Re: BSDstats report for Mar 1st, 2006

2007-03-02 Thread Matt Olander
-- Matt Olander CTO, iXsystems - Servers for Open Source http://www.iXsystems.com Public Relations, The FreeBSD Projecthttp://www.FreeBSD.org BSD on the Desktop!http://www.pcbsd.org Phone: (408)943-4100 ext. 113Fax: (408)943-4101

Re: concerns about linux

2006-04-21 Thread Matt Olander
be doing something right ;-) Cheers, -matt -- Matt Olander CTO, iXsystems - Servers for Open Source http://www.iXsystems.com Public Relations, The FreeBSD Project http://www.FreeBSD.org Phone: (408)943-4100 ext. 113 Fax: (408)943-4101

LinuxWorld Boston 2006 Pics

2006-04-10 Thread Matt Olander
and more requests for FreeBSD support. Cheers, -matt -- Matt Olander CTO, iXsystems - Servers for Open Source http://www.iXsystems.com Public Relations, The FreeBSD Project http://www.FreeBSD.org Phone: (408)943-4100 ext. 113 Fax: (408)943-4101

Re: does bsdmall really sells freebsd cd ?

2006-01-15 Thread Matt Olander
had a similar experience with their magazine. We order all our FreeBSD CD's through freebsdmall.com and I've never had a problem. FreeBSD Mall is formerly the Walnut Creek CD-ROM operation. -matt -- Matt Olander CTO, iXsystems - Servers for Open Source http://www.iXsystems.com Public Relations

Sun Cobalt ported to FreeBSD

2005-09-09 Thread Matt Olander
Hello, Here is the press release announcing the port of the Sun Cobalt to FreeBSD. I'd love to see this get as much exposure as possible so please foward it to any interested media outlets that you may know of ;-) http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/9/prweb282859.htm Cheers, -matt -- Matt

BSDLive: FreeBSD Mini CD

2005-08-30 Thread Matt Olander
wallet/purse. http://www.offmyserver.com/bsdlive Cheers, -matt Matt Olander Chief Technology Officer, OffMyServer, Inc. Public Relations, The FreeBSD Project (408)943-4100 Phone (408)943-4101 Fax www.offmyserver.com www.freebsd.org ___ freebsd

Re: BSDLive: FreeBSD Mini CD

2005-08-30 Thread Matt Olander
. Cheers, -matt Matt Olander Chief Technology Officer, OffMyServer, Inc. Public Relations, The FreeBSD Project (408)943-4100 Phone (408)943-4101 Fax www.offmyserver.com www.freebsd.org ___ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http

FreeBSD article on c/net's main news page!

2005-08-19 Thread Matt Olander
If you haven't seen it already, there's a great FreeBSD 6 article on news.com's main page: http://news.com.com/ A direct link to the article: http://news.com.com/FreeBSD+6.0+to+target+wireless+devices/ 2100-7344_3-5839526.html?tag=nefd.top -mattt Matt Olander Chief Technology Officer

Re: LWCE

2005-07-07 Thread Matt Olander
the Show Manager at IDG. If not, maybe we'll just bring beastie to walk the floor and pass out some CDs ;-) Cheers, -matt Matt Olander Chief Technology Officer, OffMyServer, Inc. Public Relations, The FreeBSD Project (408)943-4100 Phone (408)943-4101 Fax www.offmyserver.com www.freebsd.org