From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Apr 1 18:48:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02EFE15329 for ; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 18:48:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id MAA15243; Fri, 2 Apr 1999 12:17:49 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id MAA94744; Fri, 2 Apr 1999 12:17:48 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19990402121748.Q413@lemis.com> Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 12:17:48 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Donald Wilde , Michael Doyle Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Advocacy References: <3.0.5.32.19990401160343.007d6620@199.107.2.1> <370395C4.899B3EFE@thuntek.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <370395C4.899B3EFE@thuntek.net>; from Donald Wilde on Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 08:50:28AM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday, 1 April 1999 at 8:50:28 -0700, Donald Wilde wrote: > Michael Doyle wrote: >> >> Here's an idea for promoting FreeBSD- >> >> Last week I picked up a PC magazine that had Linux on the >> cover disk (a 1 CD distribution of Red Hat) >> >> Couldn't we put together a 1 CD install/distribution >> of either 2.2.8 or 3.1 and get one or more of the PC >> magazines to put it on their covers? >> > We have talked about this. The short answer is "yes", but it's got to > either work from the CDROm or install onto the FAT32 system. Another > improvement is to make it a 'newbie demo' version that would come up > pretty for newbies with a lot of eye-catching demo stuff. We will > definitely re-visit this issue. I'm going to be in Concord, CA the 7-8-9 > to visit with Jordan and the folks from WC. We'll talak about this & > many other things! Cybernet were giving away a CD which runs FreeBSD directly from the CD at USENIX last year. It was a demo for their NetMax software, which runs on FreeBSD, but it should be possible to modify it to run straight FreeBSD. Contact Michael Suarez . Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message