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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>FreeBSD Advocacy &lt;<a href="FreeBSD-Advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG">FreeBSD-Advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG</a>&gt;</p></li>
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<h2>Web resources</h2>
<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="letter.html">On Advocating FreeBSD and the
Halloween memo</a></p>
<p>Jordan Hubbard's response to the infamous Halloween memo, posted to
the FreeBSD-Advocacy mailing list (and republished with his
permission).</p>
</li>
<li><p><a href="http://www.freebsd.org/news/press.html">FreeBSD in the Press</a></p>
<p>Contains many links to articles that have appeared which mention
FreeBSD.</p></li>
<li><p><a
href="http://www.blup-bbs.de/des-or-mad/printmedien/details.php?prj=6">FreeBSD
CD Artwork</a></p>
<p>Artwork for a FreeBSD 4.6 CD cover by Oliver Rapp,
available for non-commercial use.</p></li>
</ul>
<h2>Sites using FreeBSD</h2>
<ul>
<li><p>Many sites and organizations are powered by FreeBSD, you can view the
list of personal sites and organizational sites at this location:
<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/gallery/gallery.html">
http://www.FreeBSD.org/gallery/gallery.html</a>. Please do not forget to add your
organization or website as applicable.</p></li>
<li><a name="daemonnews" href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>
is an electronic publication about the BSD operating system in general.
It's aim is to be a resource for people in the FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and
NetBSD communities.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.bsdcounter.org/">The FreeBSD Counter Page</a>
page is the start of a project which will attempt to determine the
world-wide installed base of FreeBSD users. The FreeBSD development
community currently has only the vaguest idea as to how large our user
base is, and this makes it all the more difficult to persuade hardware
and software vendors to take it seriously.</li>
<li><a href="http://bsdfreak.org/">BSD Freak</a> is a new site that
provides tutorials, articles, and journals covering BSD operating
systems from a user's perspective.</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 href="http://people.freebsd.org/~murray/bsd_flier.html"
name="freebsdvslinuxvsnt">FreeBSD vs. Linux vs. Windows NT</a>
is a comparison between the three operating systems which includes
reliability, performance, Y2K issues, support, cost of ownership,
and more.</li>
<li><a href="http://leb.net/hzo/ioscount/" name="ioscount"> The
Internet Operating System Counter</a> is a survey about operating
system usage on the Internet. Host addresses are collected and
queried for their operating system using queso.</li>
<li><a name="freebsdcon"
href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/cfp/">BSDCon 2002</a>, the
third BSD Conference and Expo.</li>
<li><a name="freebsdconeu" href="http://www.bsdconeurope.org/">BSDCon
Europe</a>, the annual BSD Conference in Europe.</li>
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