From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Oct 21 04:41:24 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id EAA08601 for chat-outgoing; Tue, 21 Oct 1997 04:41:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat) Received: from fly.HiWAAY.net (root@fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id EAA08596 for ; Tue, 21 Oct 1997 04:41:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt1-199.HiWAAY.net [208.147.147.199]) by fly.HiWAAY.net (8.8.7/8.8.6) with ESMTP id GAA01962; Tue, 21 Oct 1997 06:41:11 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.8.7/8.8.4) with ESMTP id GAA16124; Tue, 21 Oct 1997 06:41:09 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199710211141.GAA16124@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Douglas Carmichael cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: dkelly@hiwaay.net Subject: Re: Free FreeBSD CD-ROM donations to environmental/non-profit groups? In-reply-to: Message from Douglas Carmichael of "Mon, 20 Oct 1997 22:00:54 CDT." <199710210300.WAA11923@Venus.mcs.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 06:41:08 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I was looking at the WWW site of an organization called the > Environmental Support Center (http://www.envsc.org) and one of their > functions is to donate Lotus software and computer equipment (Windoze :-( > to non-profit environmental groups. > > What do you think of a program to donate FreeBSD CD-ROMs (because a lot > of small grassroots organizations have no Internet access) to non-profit > groups working on environmental or animal rights issues? Think the best way to handle that is for someone who personally supports such a group to take their FreeBSD CD's over to the group, install it, and show them how to use it. However, liberally spreading CDROMs around CS departments at Universities is another thing entirely. Lacking a CDROM? Then a laptop or luggable with 800M or so works well. Especially if it has ethernet. I have a 386SX16 with 4.5M of memory, a slow poke 8 bit ethernet board, all in a briefcase size box, that I use for exactly that purpose. NFS installs run 80k/sec. The system is still running 2.1.0 because that's what I had when the HD was in a system with enough RAM to install. Plenty good for this purpose. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.