Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 13:10:45 -0500 From: Jerry Kendall <jerry@border.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: OK, so what would YOU like to see on that second CD? Message-ID: <96Feb26.131751est.20481-2@janus.border.com> In-Reply-To: <1858.825354994@time.cdrom.com>
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FWIW: I think the 'live' CD is great... Just gzip all the files that
are there so that I(and others) can get a files instead of having
to completely reinstall some package... This is a pain when I will
not install over an existing installed package...
The extra room can be used for "naughty jpeg" and other interesting
stuff(IMO).
On Mon, 26 Feb 1996, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
>
> I'm talking about the Walnut Creek CDROM distribution, of course, and
> I'm starting to feel like my little "live CD" idea hasn't really
> turned out to be such a big hit. Most people aren't even sure how and
> when to use it, just judging by the emails I get, and those that do
> know what it's for report that they've used it oh, maybe once. I
> myself must confess to having used my copy of disk #2 only once, and
> that was only to rescue myself by grabbing a copy of ld.so off of it. :-)
>
> So the question then naturally arises as to whether this second CD
> might not be more usefully populated by something else.. A Lite2
> tree? A copy of Slackware 3.0? The complete "naughty jpeg"
> collection from ftp.penet.fi? Just what would you folks like to see? :-)
>
> Jordan
>
> [now awaiting a flood of mail from people who find ftp.penet.fi doesn't
> really exist and want to know the real address.. :-)]
>
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