Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 08:53:54 -0800 From: Bill Swingle <unfurl@dub.net> To: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Advocacy Message-ID: <19990402085354.B58046@dub.net> In-Reply-To: <3704F2FD.F1FE13BC@thuntek.net>; from Donald Wilde on Fri, Apr 02, 1999 at 09:40:29AM -0700 References: <11742.923052372@zippy.cdrom.com> <3704B684.9C55D77A@thuntek.net> <3704EB36.708A399B@naxs.com> <3704F2FD.F1FE13BC@thuntek.net>
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On Fri, Apr 02, 1999 at 09:40:29AM -0700, Donald Wilde wrote: > I agree. That's a nice way of describing what I want to see. Even if we > steal a bit of RAM for the "disk", rather than the HDD, that'd be fine. > Very few of the machines that are shipping now have less than 32M of > RAM, we could easily steal 4M of that for a writable filesystem and > still have enough for SVGA display with decent color depth. By simply > using mtools, we could save that "image" on their hard disk at the end > of their session, so they could continue to play the next time. I think, > rather than dealing with networking and modems and such, I'd rather > preconfigure Apache to come up and have the browser point to it. > Self-contained is _much_ easier to handle for a demo, and we could have > both resident programs and HTML programs as part of the demonstration > stuff. They could study the handbook right off of the CD, for example, > while their root window is doing amazing things. Then, when they get > tired of playing, the Xscreensaver kicks in and wows them some more. I totally agree with the previously said benefits of some sort of promotional disk. That said, I think it is important that, while impressing the user and showing them the benefits of FreeBSD, the disk should not misrepresent what an actual FreeBSD install is like after-the-fact. I like the apache idea for the demo disk but it doesnt seem like the kind of thing that we would want in a _real_ install. Just imagine the user running the demo, getting excited about FreeBSD, then doing a real install and running into twm. Ugh. -Bill -- -=| Bill Swingle - <unfurl@dub.net> -=| "I hate quotations." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -=| FreeBSD - The Power to Serve! - http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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