From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 26 10:35:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA06727 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 26 Feb 1996 10:35:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from tombstone.sunrem.com (tombstone.sunrem.com [199.104.90.54]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA06721 for ; Mon, 26 Feb 1996 10:35:36 -0800 (PST) Received: (from brandon@localhost) by tombstone.sunrem.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id LAA01588; Mon, 26 Feb 1996 11:35:35 -0700 Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 11:35:33 -0700 (MST) From: Brandon Gillespie To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OK, so what would YOU like to see on that second CD? In-Reply-To: <1858.825354994@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 26 Feb 1996, 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. 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. :-) > > 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? :-) just do not get rid of /usr/src off CD #2, I find that to be extremely useful as I dont have to install the entire source tree, but I can still grab tidbits of os source when needed, and 'lndir /cdrom/usr/src /usr/src' is also rather handy ;)