Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 12:17:48 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Donald Wilde <dwilde1@thuntek.net>, Michael Doyle <relyod@co-operation-ireland.ie> Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Advocacy Message-ID: <19990402121748.Q413@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <370395C4.899B3EFE@thuntek.net>; from Donald Wilde on Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 08:50:28AM -0700 References: <3.0.5.32.19990401160343.007d6620@199.107.2.1> <370395C4.899B3EFE@thuntek.net>
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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 <msuarez@cybernet.com>. 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
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