From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri May 7 3:32:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from home (unknown [203.0.93.167]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B9F014E7C for ; Fri, 7 May 1999 03:32:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jsutton@genesis.net.au) Received: from localhost (jsutton@localhost) by home (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id UAA12409; Fri, 7 May 1999 20:32:41 +1000 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: stargate.home: jsutton owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 20:32:40 +1000 (EST) From: Joel Sutton X-Sender: jsutton@stargate.home To: Nicole Harrington Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [ADV] Re: www.tunelinux.com - an interesting idea... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >> 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