Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 09:40:29 -0700 From: Donald Wilde <dwilde1@thuntek.net> To: "Andrew I. Arbuckle" <aiarbuckle@naxs.com> Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Advocacy Message-ID: <3704F2FD.F1FE13BC@thuntek.net> References: <11742.923052372@zippy.cdrom.com> <3704B684.9C55D77A@thuntek.net> <3704EB36.708A399B@naxs.com>
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> It seems to me you would get more interest if the system ran completely from the CD, > with the exception of having a data space on the hard drive > (temporary), then you would have a true demo for the user. Ran as an interactive movie, > and then if the user liked it, instructions on how to get an install, > either from the CD or as a download at no cost. Even then I feel you will have some > problems, as in my experience, most users are casual users, and do > not want anything to do with an install. Plug and Play mentalities. 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. -- Don Wilde "Bringing the Internet to everyone!" Wilde Media 1380 Rio Rancho Blvd. SE #117 voice: 505-771-0709 Rio Rancho, New Mexico 87124 e-mail: dwilde1@thuntek.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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