Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 20:25:10 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: jkh@zippy.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: jgrosch@MooseRiver.com, tlambert@primenet.com, stefan.bethke@hanse.de, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SETI on FreeBSD Message-ID: <199904272025.NAA05147@usr04.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <34695.924918944@zippy.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Apr 23, 99 06:55:44 pm
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> > Good idea, Terry! Of course, we can all hear Jordan chanting his mantra, > > "Great, send me the diffs". I'll look at the install code and see if I can > > figure how to fit this in. > > Actually, I really don't think this is CharityBSD and I am not > particularly enthused at the idea of detracting from the main focus of > the installer, which is to install systems and nothing more, by going > in the whole donation / banner advert direction. I'm sure it would > have some useful effects, I'll readily grant that, but it just rubs me > the wrong way to have it here. My mantra in this case is "I don't care > if you send me diffs, I don't want that feature in the installer. Put > it on a web page." :-) The point would be to encourage FreeBSD user's to painlessly participate in "CPU volunteerism" type projects, and thus raise the visibility of FreeBSD. I'm not asking that it beg you to do it, default to doing it, or give an actual list, unless you select the "volunteer CPU cycles" menu options. I know that I personally get a slanted view of the world when I go to one of these projects' home page and see 90 Linux boxes and 4 FreeBSD boxes (or whatever; the point is FreeBSD isn't the largest number). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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