Re: BSDstats: New High Water Mark: 25 000+ Hosts Reporting In

2008-11-03 Thread Tim Clewlow
> [BCCed others] > > On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 3:12 PM, Don Witt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> This is very cool. What is up with NetBSD and OpenBSD. Are these >> numbers >> accurate? > > These numbers represent the number of people that have installed a > program to report usage, and are almost

Re: Bounty announced for Flash9 in Opera in FreeBSD

2008-01-01 Thread Tim Clewlow
--- Szilveszter Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 05:13:30PM -0800, John Kozubik wrote: > > > > > > "... I will pay $200 to whoever can compose a working and stable recipe > > for running Adobe Flash 9 inside of the FreeBSD native version of Opera 9 > > on FreeBSD 6.x. T

Re: Independent security analysis of operating systems/applications

2007-10-30 Thread Tim Clewlow
--- Doug Poland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > Recently some friends of mine have started to cite "studies" that > assert Unix/Linux operating systems are now the most frequently > attacked platforms. There are a number of possible reasons for this. 1) the attackers have realised that

Pre-installing in general

2007-03-14 Thread Tim Clewlow
Hello, The discussion on Dell's survery about pre-installing a Linux distro has made me think of a slightly different approach. Rather than being prompted by things like a survey, maybe we should be more pro-active. Are there any groups in the FreeBSD community actively going to manufacturers and

Re: Dell is asking what free OS to preinstall

2007-03-14 Thread Tim Clewlow
--- Jeff Rollin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 14/03/07, Eric Kjeldergaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > drivers.) For those of us using FreeBSD, there's not a substantial > > advantage to proprietary linux drivers over proprietary Windows drivers. > We > > go unsupported either way. > > >

Re: Dell is asking what free OS to preinstall

2007-03-14 Thread Tim Clewlow
--- "Peter A. Giessel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dell is actually asking what Linux Distro to install, but if enough of us > ask for preinstalled FreeBSD, it might get them thinking about FreeBSD and > looking into providing support and especially drivers in the future. > > It can't hurt anyw

Re: BSD folks position on GPL, Novell, IBM, SCO, and MS...

2006-11-28 Thread Tim Clewlow
--- Mike Hauber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Mike Hauber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 17:13:10 -0500 > CC: > Subject: Re: BSD folks position on GPL, Novell, IBM, SCO, and MS... > > On Tuesday 28 November 2006 15:21,

Why FreeBSD is good

2006-10-26 Thread Tim Clewlow
Hi, I am a fairly novice user, I have only been using FreeBSD for 2 and a bit years. I currently use it as a firewall/gateway for a lan, on which exist servers and desktop systems - all FreeBSD. It is this wide range of capabilities that make FreeBSD so good, ie it will quite happily be a firewal