From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 2 16:10:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B588137B400 for ; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 16:10:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from labs.unixhideout.com (dsl-65-187-193-189.telocity.com [65.187.193.189]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5C5043E65 for ; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 16:10:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@unixhideout.com) Received: from unixhideout.com (webserver@localhost.unixhideout.com. [192.168.1.20]) by labs.unixhideout.com (8.12.5/8.12.3) with SMTP id g72NAYSY004989 for ; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 19:10:34 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from root@unixhideout.com) Received: from 192.168.1.10 (SquirrelMail authenticated user sagacious) by email.unixhideout.com with HTTP; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 19:10:34 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <1631.192.168.1.10.1028329834.squirrel@email.unixhideout.com> Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 19:10:34 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: Oh man I'm going to get flamed From: "Mike" To: In-Reply-To: <20020802185133.X93594-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> References: <20020802185133.X93594-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Reply-To: root@unixhideout.com X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.2.7) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I've been thinking a lot about an offshoot version of FreeBSD that > newbian users could get from the kern.flp / mfsroot.flp process and its > sysinstall... > > There would be a checkbox for [ ]HomeFreeBSD or [ ]HomeBSD or the like > (users could pay $19.95 for a CDROM and seven days of e-mail support, > too). > > Just hear me out *grin* > > It would include the latest XFree86, KDE (or whatever most resembles the > familiar StartButton), and OpenOffice. Out of the box. It would > include viewers and players for common media -- practically built-in to > KDE and its menus -- for files of type *.pdf, *.ra, *.asx, *.swf, *.doc, > *.mov, *.qt, *.mpeg, *.mpg, *.mp3 and many other popular file types. > > I think that would be nice. > > HomeBSD might even include a tiny, simple binary that logs into a site > at something like www.homebsd.org/cvsup/compare.cgi to make upgrades > easier... or uses cvsup's port and protocol to accomplish this. :) > > A fairy ghost would fly of your diskette drive and install everything > for you too. > > Not. > > -- > Peter Leftwich > President & Founder > Video2Video Services > Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA > +1-413-403-9555 Stick with videos.. Please. -- The unixhideout network http://www.unixhideout.com ----------------------------------------- Free email that kicks ass from UnixHideout "The UnixHideout network" http://www.unixhideout.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message