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Date:      Mon, 12 Jun 2000 14:00:55 -0700
From:      Jim Mock <jim@luna.osd.bsdi.com>
To:        Sean Michael Whipkey <highway@cstone.net>
Cc:        freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Business card CDs
Message-ID:  <20000612140055.A35491@luna.osd.bsdi.com>
In-Reply-To: <39454E15.8582ACFF@cstone.net>; from highway@cstone.net on Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 04:54:45PM -0400
References:  <39454E15.8582ACFF@cstone.net>

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On Mon, 12 Jun 2000 at 16:54:45 -0400, Sean Michael Whipkey wrote:
> [Yes, I sent this to -chat before, but I wasn't subscribed to -advocacy
> then.  This is more appropriate for it.]
> 
> http://www.linuxcare.com/bootable_cd/
> 
> These are CDs the size of a business card you can boot to run Linux. 
> I'd love to see these for FreeBSD.
> 
> They also come with those white oval stickers that have a three letter
> acronym on there (like "OBX") but say "LNX".
> 
> Those aren't bad - I don't like 'em, personally, but it might be cool to
> see one that said "BSD".

I talked with someone about this at Fall COMDEX in Vegas last year -- we
were pretty interested in doing it, but then we came to the realization
that it was cheaper for us to hand out full-sized disk ones than to have
a bunch of these made -- not to mention we'd have had to hack a custom
install to fit on a smaller CD..

- jim

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