Date: Wed, 1 Feb 95 19:07:39 MST From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) To: jkh@FreeBSD.org (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: roberto@hsc.fr.net, hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: NFS V3 Alpha release (fwd) Message-ID: <9502020207.AA09260@cs.weber.edu> In-Reply-To: <9222.791682391@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Feb 1, 95 03:46:31 pm
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> > If this was truly a BSD based project, this is worth a PRESS RELEASE! > > Any suggestions? :-) > > A FreeBSD press blitz has long been planned, funded and is simply > waiting for 2.1 so I can have something relly worth plugging. Got my > letter to BYTE already written, in fact.. I'm just too cool for > words! :-) :-) > > Aactually, in all seriousness, any and all suggestions over the next > couple of months will be greatly appreciated - I AM serious about > this! We're going to do some promo posters and t-shirts as well, and > I'm pushing for coffee mugs.. Well, assuming the answer to the "is it a BSD based developement effort" is "yes", something like: (Terry's "build your own press release kit") ========================================================================== THE FIRST PUBLIC NFS 3.0 REFERENCE IMPLEMENTATION NOW AVAILABLE ON BSD <bold>Next generation of file sharing protocols unveiled</bold> Cyberspace, Feb. 1, 1995 -- The University of Guelph today announced the availability of a reference implementation of the long awaited NFS 3.0 file sharing protocol... on FreeBSD 2.0. "This code has only been tested in FreeBSD2.0R, but should be runable in other 4.4BSD-Lite based operating systems without too much effort," said Rick Macklem, <Rick's relationship to the project and the University>. "Users have been eagerly awaiting NFS 3.0", said <insert person making release here and their position and affiliation>. "Now it's real, it's actively under development, and I'm sure users will agree it has been worth the wait". <describe features of NFS 3.0> <another quote of someone, telling why it's better than 2.0> <decribe the development environment> "We chose BSD because of <reasons>," said <person>, "It's always nice when you have full source to something when you're trying to debug". <etc.> <bold>Availability</bold> <information on how to get it, expected developement schedule, etc.> <Information about the University of Guelph and why you'd want to send your kids there.> <Information on FreeBSD, why it is cool, plug for free OS's in general, probably including Linux to build credibility as a peer> <Plug for BSD availability> <standard NASDAC and other crud for company actually making the release> ========================================================================== It'd probably be nice if you could anon FTP to snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca without the guest account failing, though. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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