Re: FreeBSD user statistics

2007-08-01 Thread Sam Lawrance
On 01/08/2007, at 12:10 PM, Sunnz wrote: So Australia has the highest number of BSD installations, that's quite surprising! IIRC, that's due to a large number of systems managed by one person or group, that are also set up to report to bsdstats.

mockup of BSD news/articles site

2007-04-12 Thread Sam Lawrance
This is a one page mockup I have been fiddling with in my spare time: http://bsdtn.com/ There's no content, it's really just an exercise in the type of site I would like to see carrying sexy-looking FreeBSD news. Just throwing it out there for comments.

Re: Media coordinator? [was: Re: ZFS committed to the FreeBSD base. (fwd)]

2007-04-09 Thread Sam Lawrance
On 09/04/2007, at 10:48 PM, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: On Sun, 8 Apr 2007, Sam Lawrance wrote: Would it be worthwhile to form a media coordinator role? I can think of two areas of value for this role: announcement coordination and media liaison. FreeBSD has a media coordinator

Media coordinator? [was: Re: ZFS committed to the FreeBSD base. (fwd)]

2007-04-08 Thread Sam Lawrance
On 06/04/2007, at 7:51 PM, Robert Watson wrote: Now would be a great time to do some articles on this, speaking of which. :-) Pawel's e-mail doesn't make a great start for an advocacy piece because it fails to say what's good/important about ZFS, so the first task is to figure that out

Re: Macromedia

2006-04-23 Thread Sam Lawrance
Chad Gross avatar4d at gmail.com writes: I know this has been an exhaustive topic as of late, but it needs to be addressed. Flash should be supported in some fashion on FreeBSD and now we can't even run the Linux plugin (not that it worked without crashing Firefox constantly anyway). Their