From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 26 10:32:41 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA06544 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 26 Feb 1996 10:32:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from grumble.grondar.za (root@grumble.grondar.za [196.7.18.130]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA06539 for ; Mon, 26 Feb 1996 10:32:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from grumble.grondar.za (mark@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grumble.grondar.za (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA07327; Mon, 26 Feb 1996 20:31:54 +0200 (SAT) Message-Id: <199602261831.UAA07327@grumble.grondar.za> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OK, so what would YOU like to see on that second CD? Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 20:31:53 +0200 From: Mark Murray Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk "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 -- Mark Murray 46 Harvey Rd, Claremont, Cape Town 7700, South Africa +27 21 61-3768 GMT+0200 Finger mark@grondar.za for PGP key