Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 16:07:34 +0100 From: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com> To: Stuart Henderson <stuart@internationalschool.co.uk> Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: An idea for promoting FreeBSD Message-ID: <353CB636.F46D457C@uk.radan.com> References: <353BED45.7F185851@uk.radan.com> <353C9F56.1D16D5E2@internationalschool.co.uk>
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Stuart Henderson wrote:
>
> Mark Ovens wrote:
> >
> > Personal Computer World, which had Red Hat Linux on it's CD about 6
> > months ago, actually invites people to submit s/w for inclusion, the
> > following appears in every issue -
>
> Computer Shopper would be a better choice, the magazine is cheaper and
> higher distribution and they've been mentioning it in the last few
> months as well. "Hey it's that FreeBSD thing they've been going on
> about, I wonder what it looks like?" etc.
I wasn't suggesting PCW only, I was just using it as an example as there
is that invitation to submit software in every issue. We should try to
get FreeBSD on the cover CD of _every_ computer mag.
I didn't renew my subscription to Confuse-a-Shopper when it expired a
few months ago because I was fed up with the mag being so
pro-Microsloth, Unix was just something to poke fun at to make Win95 &
NT (Not Tested??) look better. So what happens? the last issue of my
subscription had a 4 page review of FreeBSD!!!, and a damn good one as
well wasn't it?
>
> A PPP setup script would be very necessary I think, preferably with a
> dead simple "phone number, username, password" setup for CHAP...most
> ISP's should cope with that these days, it's far easier to get chap
> working than repeatedly explain how to install scripting on Win95 :-)
Yes, it doesn't have to be a fancy GUI job just a plain old Bourne shell
script, but the questions need to simple and minimal. Phone number,
name, password as you suggest.
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