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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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