FreeBSD Advocacy Project

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

This page provides links to more information to help you do this.

Mailing lists

*BSD Myths

Describes and debunks some of the myths that surround the *BSD projects.
On Advocating FreeBSD and the Halloween memo

Jordan Hubbard's response to the infamous Halloween memo, posted to the FreeBSD-Advocacy mailing list (and republished with his permission).
FreeBSD in the Press

Contains many links to articles that have appeared which mention FreeBSD.
FreeBSD CD Artwork

Artwork for a FreeBSD 4.6 CD cover by Oliver Rapp, available for non-commercial use.

Many sites and organizations are powered by FreeBSD, you can view the list of personal sites and organizational sites at this location: http://www.FreeBSD.org/gallery/gallery.html. Please do not forget to add your organization or website as applicable.
Daemon News 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.
The FreeBSD Counter Page 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.
BSD Freak is a new site that provides tutorials, articles, and journals covering BSD operating systems from a user's perspective.
The Open Directory Project's goal is to produce the most comprehensive directory of the web by relying on a vast army of volunteer editors.
FreeBSD vs. Linux vs. Windows NT is a comparison between the three operating systems which includes reliability, performance, Y2K issues, support, cost of ownership, and more.
The Internet Operating System Counter is a survey about operating system usage on the Internet. Host addresses are collected and queried for their operating system using queso.
BSDCon 2002, the third BSD Conference and Expo.
BSDCon Europe, the annual BSD Conference in Europe.