From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 16 13:04:23 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B40B1065695 for ; Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:04:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from tim.des.no (tim.des.no [194.63.250.121]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D24618FC0A for ; Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:04:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ds4.des.no (des.no [84.49.246.2]) by smtp.des.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10F5F6D452; Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:04:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ds4.des.no (Postfix, from userid 1001) id E1679844F3; Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:04:21 +0100 (CET) From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= To: Han Hwei Woo References: <541b7a870912150733m4bc34148j98790a6142d4521c@mail.gmail.com> <1260900906.3947.11.camel@earth.sol> <4B2810FA.2050100@pce-net.com> Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:04:21 +0100 In-Reply-To: <4B2810FA.2050100@pce-net.com> (Han Hwei Woo's message of "Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:43:06 -0800") Message-ID: <864onrkr3e.fsf@ds4.des.no> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.95 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: why BSDs got no love X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:04:23 -0000 Han Hwei Woo writes: > 2. There is a live CD. > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/8.0/8.0-RELEASE-i386-li= vefs.iso That's a misnomer. For all practical purposes, there is no difference between livefs and disc1 except for the lack of packages. When people download something called a "live CD", they expect a CD that will boot a fully functional desktop, with an option to run the installer. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no