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<td valign="top">Nov 08</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">3</td>
<td valign="top"><a href="#1">accessing portal
site</a></td>
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<td valign="top">Nov 06 - Nov 12</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">17</td>
<td valign="top"><a href="#2">Any artists interested
in doing a FreeBSD animated GIF banner?</a></td>
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<td valign="top">Nov 06 - Nov 08</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">9</td>
<td valign="top"><a href="#3">CounterStrike</a></td>
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<td valign="top">Nov 10</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">2</td>
<td valign="top"><a href="#4">FreeBSD Foundation: Examples of
FreeBSD as teaching aid/research platform</a></td>
</tr>
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<td valign="top">Nov 07</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">2</td>
<td valign="top"><a href="#5">Good piece of advocacy</a></td>
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<td valign="top">Nov 06 - Nov 12</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">7</td>
<td valign="top"><a href="#6">Installation: what to (not) do
about it</a></td>
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<h3><a name="1"></a>Nov 08 (3 posts): <a href="http://docs.FreeBSD.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=77068+0+archive/2000/freebsd-advocacy/20001112.freebsd-advocacy">accessing portal site</a></h3>
<p>This started out with a poorly composed letter of complaint, Cc'd
to us from a representative of Freedom Technologies Corporation, a
company that builds pre-installed FreeBSD systems. He seemed upset
over a URL on the Intel web site that doesn't load for anything but
IE, and used this is a plug to sell his services. A couple of
replies quickly let him know we didn't like that sort of thing.</p>
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<h3><a name="2"></a>Nov 6 - Nov 12 (17 posts): <a href="http://docs.FreeBSD.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=25663+0+archive/2000/freebsd-advocacy/20001112.freebsd-advocacy">Any artists interested in doing a FreeBSD animated GIF banner?</a></h3>
<p>A continuation of <a href="05.html#2">last week's thread</a>, here
we have a couple examples of what people are coming up with:</p>
<ul>
<li><a
href="http://www.lpt.ens.fr/~rsidd/freebsd.gif">http://www.lpt.ens.fr/~rsidd/freebsd.gif</a>
- <a href="mailto:rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in">Rahul
Siddharthan</a></li>
<li><a
href="http://bean.internal.org/freebsd_banner2.gif">http://bean.internal.org/freebsd_banner2.gif</a>
- <a href="mailto:bean@internal.org">Bean</a></li>
</ul>
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<h3><a name="3"></a>Nov 06 - 08 (9 posts): <a href="http://docs.FreeBSD.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=2406+0+archive/2000/freebsd-advocacy/20001112.freebsd-advocacy">CounterStrike</a></h3>
<p>This discussion is also continued on from <a href="05.html#3">last
week</a>. Some interesting additions to the conversation were:</p>
<blockquote>
<p><i>Some games have bugs that have audible manifestations on
FreeBSD but not on Linux, probably because FreeBSD follows the
spec instead of emulating OSS or Linux bug for bug</i> - <a
href="mailto:des@ofug.org">[Dag-Erling Smorgrav]</a></p>
</blockquote>
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<h3><a name="4"></a>Nov 10 (2 posts): <a href="http://docs.FreeBSD.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=92969+0+archive/2000/freebsd-advocacy/20001112.freebsd-advocacy">FreeBSD Foundation: Examples of FreeBSD as teaching aid/research platform</a></h3>
<p><a href="mailto:keichii@iteration.net">[Michael Wu]</a> sends us a
couple specific examples of how FreeBSD is used as either a teaching
aid or a research platform by educational institutions.</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.csie.nctu.edu.tw/os">National Chiao Tung
University</A> - The Department of Computer Science and
Information Engineering at this university in Taiwan uses FreeBSD
to teach OS Arch. An estimated 10-15% of *.edu.tw workstations
are running FreeBSD, with a major following in the dorms as well.</li>
<li><a href="http://ece.utexas.edu">University of Texas at Austin</a>
- As a teaching assistant, Michael himself uses FreeBSD as a
supplement his classes. The Professor uses C++, Codewarrior/x86,
and he has decided to withhold opinion on that.</li>
<li><a href="http://physics.purdue.edu">Purdue</a> - runs FreeBSD
in their computer labs, according to <a
href="mailto:will@FreeBSD.org">Will Andrews]</a>.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.usc.edu/dept/engineering/infotech/ITP%20499%20Unix%20System%20Administration.htm">University
of Southern California</a> - has a course on FreeBSD System
Administration, but <a href="mailto:kris@FreeBSD.org">[Kris
Kennaway]</a> isn't sure on how often its offered. "The Complete
FreeBSD" by Greg Lehey is required material.</li>
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<h3><a name="5"></a>Nov 07 (2 posts): <a href="http://docs.FreeBSD.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=50179+0+archive/2000/freebsd-advocacy/20001112.freebsd-advocacy">Good piece of advocacy</a></h3>
<p><a href="mailto:asmodai@wxs.nl">[Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven]</a>
wanted to clue us in on a book he recently purchased. It seems
that Warren W. Gay has written a book called "Advanced UNIX
Programming" that uses FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE throughout the entire
book to test examples. Warren also supports and mentions FreeBSD a
lot. If you'd like to take a look at his book, I found it at <a
href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/067231990X/o/qid=974177545/sr=8-2/ref=aps_sr_b_1_2/105-8987692-0849559">Amazon</a>.
The ISBN number is 0-672-31990-X.</p>.
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<h3><a name="6"></a>Nov 06 - Nov 12 (7 posts): <a href="http://docs.FreeBSD.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=4779+0+archive/2000/freebsd-advocacy/20001112.freebsd-advocacy">Installation: what to (not) do about it</a></h3>
<p>Another thread stretched into its 2nd week, Terry & Jordan are still
discussing an alternative to /stand/sysinstall. A couple of
interesting tidbits:</p>
<blockquote>
<p><i>It would be nice if the project would publish a roadmap
indicating what it wants from developers, so that they don't end
up spending an incredible amount of effort, only to find themselves
stonewalled later. If the project would at least publish an
architectural roadmap for even only six months ahead, I think it
would help to commit more people to expending the necessary effort
to see to those goals.</i></p>
<p><i>Clearly, the SMPng work is one goal that's pretty widely
known, thanks to Jason Evans and others publishing their
direction; if the project could be that forthcoming in other
areas, then there would be a "guarantee" that, even if the work was
ultimately rejected, at least you could know that you were
travelling in the right direction, instead of getting to your
goal, only to have the project say "that's nice, but that's not
where we are headed". At least put up some street signs".</i>
- <a href="terry@lambert.org">[Terry Lambert]</a></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote>
<p><i>Roadmaps are produced by people with the time and energy to
write roadmaps. One of the reasons SMPng is going so well is
that we paid to fly a bunch of people to a kick-off meeting and
get them working more cohesively together and then we continued
to pay the manager of the project to do it on a full-time basis.
Management is pretty important where the generation and
implementation of roadmap documents is concerned and it's as hard
to get it done on a purely volunteer basis as it is to get
companies to pay for it in all the areas it needs done.</i></p>
<p><i>I'd love to see more management and more roadmaps but I've
also learned to live with the fact that there will never be as
much of either as I or most anyone else would like.</i> - <a
href="mailto:jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com">[Jordan Hubbard]</a></p>
</blockquote>
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<p>This conspectus expresses my understanding of what occurred on the
FreeBSD-advocacy mailing list during the specified week.</p>
<p>Hey, I'm human... I may have made an error or two... If you think
this is the case, and/or that I have omitted some significant thread
or part of a thread, feel free to contact me via email.</p>
<p align="right">- <a href="mailto:bean@internal.org">Rebecca "Bean"
Visger</a></p>
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<th align="left">Dates</th>
<th align="center"># Posts</th>
<th align="left">Subject</th>
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<tr>
<td valign="top">Nov 08</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">3</td>
<td valign="top"><a href="11/12.html#1">accessing portal
site</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">Nov 06 - Nov 12</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">17</td>
<td valign="top"><a href="11/12.html#2">Any artists interested
in doing a FreeBSD animated GIF banner?</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">Nov 06 - Nov 08</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">9</td>
<td valign="top"><a href="11/12.html#3">CounterStrike</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">Nov 10</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">2</td>
<td valign="top"><a href="11/12.html#4">FreeBSD Foundation:
Examples of FreeBSD as teaching aid/research platform</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">Nov 07</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">2</td>
<td valign="top"><a href="11/12.html#5">Good piece of
advocacy</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">Nov 06 - Nov 12</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">7</td>
<td valign="top"><a href="11/12.html#6">Installation: what to
(not) do about it</a></td>
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