Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 20:32:40 +1000 (EST) From: Joel Sutton <jsutton@genesis.net.au> To: Nicole Harrington <nicole@nmhtech.com> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [ADV] Re: www.tunelinux.com - an interesting idea... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990507201417.12376B-100000@stargate.home> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.990506172857.nicole@nmhtech.com>
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> >> It sounds like a good idea, but we should also come up with > >>something original, and stop being one step behind the Linux > >>crowd in the creative advocacy sites. I agree. All we need now are some original ideas.... > >> Perhaps somebody generous enough to spare some bandwidth for a > >>site that would carry various custom configurations (in > >>pkg_add-able format?) for various things. The availibility of it > >>_could_ win over the management types, and the lazier sysadmins > >>out there. ;) I like this idea, but wouldn't it be better to keep these packages in the ports collection? > Put something together and I will try to swing it for you. I'd be willing to put something together with PHP3. > I would need to know: > 1) Expected disk space needed. I'm not sure about this one. It would really depend on the popularity of the project. This would be a knowledge base rather than a "file store" so that should limit the space required somewhat. We'd have to define some limits in both disk space, types of information and the age of the information. > 2) Other resouces needed (I assume just web server and ftp server is needed) Apache PHP3 MySql/Postrgresql FTP server (for packages???) > 3) Who would be in charge of the project Someone who knows about performace tuning systems. This really rules me out. :-) A show of hands perhaps? For the information to be effective there would need to be some sort of approval process - which translates to someones time unfortunately... Cheers, Joel... --- Joel Sutton | Busy Bee Consulting Phone: 0409 426-563 | Melbourne, Australia Email: jsutton@genesis.net.au | http://www.genesis.net.au/~jsutton VicFUG Webmaster/Acting President | http://www.vicfug.au.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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