Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 20:31:53 +0200 From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OK, so what would YOU like to see on that second CD? Message-ID: <199602261831.UAA07327@grumble.grondar.za>
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"Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote:
> I'm talking about the Walnut Creek CDROM distribution, of course, and
> I'm starting to feel like my little "live CD" idea hasn't really
> turned out to be such a big hit.
On the contrary, the install tools do not use it enough. I was waiting
with baited breath for someone to fix unionfs, allowing a floppy to be
union mounted on top of / - Voila! Full system running off a CD!
> Most people aren't even sure how and
> when to use it, just judging by the emails I get, and those that do
> know what it's for report that they've used it oh, maybe once. I
> myself must confess to having used my copy of disk #2 only once, and
> that was only to rescue myself by grabbing a copy of ld.so off of it. :-)
I've used it a couple of times as a rescue disk to fix newbies'
fubars. Its also useful (never happened - touch wood!) as a recovery
disk after being hacked.
> So the question then naturally arises as to whether this second CD
> might not be more usefully populated by something else.. A Lite2
> tree? A copy of Slackware 3.0? The complete "naughty jpeg"
> collection from ftp.penet.fi? Just what would you folks like to see? :-)
Hmm...
A Lite2 tree - I'd love it!
CVS tree - I'd love it!
Original tarballs of "things" in the tree like bind, sendmail, all
the gnu stuff that we use or should begin to use (incentives!), taylor
UUCP, und so weiter...
{Net|Open}BSD's CVS trees :-) :-) :-)
Latest Linux kernel sources (WTF) :-)
M
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