This screen allows you to register yourself with the FreeBSD Project's user counter & statistics database. ** IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT YOU DO THIS! ** Believe me, I hate filling out forms as much as anyone, and most people's understandable reaction to a registration form is to say "Eh, what's this? They want to send me junk mail and then on top of that they expect me to go to *extra* trouble in order to make it easy for them?! Forget it!" This is not that kind of registration, and I strongly urge you to take just a few minutes to read this and find out how much the simple act of registering can help both you and FreeBSD. 1. It is very much in your best interest, as a FreeBSD user, to stand up and be counted so that various software vendors will begin to take you and your operating system seriously. There are numerous ISVs (Independent Software Vendors) who would be only too happy to port the kinds of applications that many FreeBSD users are currently screaming for (everything from spreadsheets and word processing packages to games) if they only had some idea that it might be worth the trouble. The only way to convince the ISVs that FreeBSD is worth their trouble is to show them how many users we have, and to do that we need your registration! At this time we literally do not know how many users FreeBSD has, and that's hardly helpful when you're trying to convince someone to port software to it. 2. We will not send you *anything* you do not ask for. Some people are genuinely interested in new product announcements for FreeBSD or want to hear about security issues & other important advisories as they come up, and for such people we've added registration options for selecting various types of additional material they might be interested in receiving as a side-effect of registration. The default behavior is to NOT put the user on any special mailing lists or provide their names in mailing list data sent to (carefully screened) FreeBSD product advertisers - all of that must be specifically requested during the registration. Most fields in the form are fairly self-explanatory. At the minimum, you should enter your first and last name as well as your email address so that we can weed obvious duplicates from the counter. You will NOT be sent any mail at this address unless you also sign up for one of the additional notification services, and it's only used to provide us with a way of differentiating "John Smith " from "John Smith " in the simple, no-frills registration case. If you do not have an email address, some sort of postal address will serve the same purpose. If you also wish to receive the upcoming FreeBSD Newsletter (soon to published and distributed free of charge by Walnut Creek CDROM) in printed form, then you must specify some sort of postal address. Likewise, if you elect to receive the email version then you should specify a valid Email address. Should you wish to unsubscribe to the FreeBSD Newsletter or otherwise de-register yourself at a later time, you can simply send mail to register-request@freebsd.org. If you subscribe to the announce mailing list (and it's a good idea) then you can modify your subscription at any time by sending mail to majordomo@freebsd.org Your cooperation with this new registration service is greatly appreciated, and by taking just 5 minutes to fill this out now you will be helping us to gather data which will greatly assist FreeBSD in firmly establishing a position as a serious UN*X operating system contender. Regards, Jordan Hubbard, FreeBSD PR Officer