From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Apr 21 08:08:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA20729 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Tue, 21 Apr 1998 08:08:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from post.mail.demon.net (post-30.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA20717 for ; Tue, 21 Apr 1998 15:08:42 GMT (envelope-from marko@uk.radan.com) Received: from (uk.radan.com) [158.152.75.22] by post.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 1.82 #2) id 0yReew-0007Gj-00; Tue, 21 Apr 1998 16:08:35 +0100 Organisation: Radan Computational Ltd., Bath, UK. Phone: +44-1225-320320 Fax: +44-1225-320311 Received: from beavis.uk.radan.com (beavis [193.114.228.122]) by uk.radan.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with SMTP id QAA05073; Tue, 21 Apr 1998 16:07:54 +0100 Received: from uk.radan.com (gppsun4) by beavis.uk.radan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA19082; Tue, 21 Apr 98 16:07:52 BST Message-Id: <353CB636.F46D457C@uk.radan.com> Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 16:07:34 +0100 From: Mark Ovens Organization: Radan Computational Ltd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4m) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Stuart Henderson Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: An idea for promoting FreeBSD References: <353BED45.7F185851@uk.radan.com> <353C9F56.1D16D5E2@internationalschool.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. -- Mark Ovens *====================================* CNC Apps Engineer | One of the main causes of the fall | Radan Computational Ltd | of the Roman Empire was, that | mailto:marko@uk.radan.com | lacking a zero, they had no way of | | indicating the successful | | termination of their C programs | *====================================* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message