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    <p>Much of the success which surrounds FreeBSD is due to people advocating its use to
      their friends, colleagues, and employers.</p>

    <p>This page provides links to more information to help you do this.</p>

    <h2>Mailing lists</h2>

    <ul>
      <li><p><a
	href="http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy">FreeBSD
	advocacy mailing list</a></p></li>
</ul>

    <h2>Web resources</h2>

    <ul>
	<li><p><a href="whyusefreebsd.html">Why Use FreeBSD?</a></p>

	<p>Explanations given by existing users as to why FreeBSD should
	  be used.</p></li>
    </ul>
    <ul>
        <li><p><a href="myths.html">*BSD Myths</a></p>

	<p>Describes and debunks some of the myths that surround the *BSD
	  projects.</p></li>

        <li><p><a href="&base;/news/press.html">FreeBSD in the Press</a></p>

	<p>Contains many links to articles that have appeared which mention
	  FreeBSD.</p></li>
</ul>

	<h2>Sites using FreeBSD</h2>
<ul>

	<li><a href="http://uptime.netcraft.com/perf/reports/Hosters"
	  name="netcraft">Hosting Providers Performance</a> by Netcraft is
	  tracking the reliability of major webhosting services, many of them
	  are using FreeBSD.</li>

        <li><a href="http://dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Operating_Systems/Unix/BSD/FreeBSD/" name="dmoz">
          The Open Directory Project's</a> goal is to produce the most
          comprehensive directory of the web by relying on a vast army of
          volunteer editors.</li>

	<li>A brief list of sites using &os; is maintained
	  <a href="&base;/handbook/nutshell.html#INTRODUCTION-NUTSHELL-USERS">
	  in the handbook</a>.</li>

</ul>

	<h2>FreeBSD conferences</h2>
<ul>

	<li><a name="bsdcan" href="http://www.bsdcan.org/">BSDCan</a>, the
	  annual BSD Conference held in Ottawa, Canada.</li>

	<li><a name="eurobsdcon" href="http://www.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSDCon</a>,
	  the annual BSD Conference in Europe.</li>

	<li><a name="asiabsdcon" href="http://asiabsdcon.org/">AsiaBSDCon</a>,
	  the annual BSD Conference held in Asia.</li>

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