Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 04:02:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Donald Burr <dburr@POBoxes.com> To: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: The best tool for advocacy... Message-ID: <XFMail.980422040203.dburr@POBoxes.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- ...is a CD-R drive. I just purchased one of these at a computer show. And let me tell you, these are veritable Advocacy Machines. I've made a special FreeBSD CD-ROM, which contains a fully installable FreeBSD distribution, complete with X and sources. I also put HTML and text copies of the FAQ and Handbook, a mirror of www.freebsd.org, and a set of web pages I created on my own, with various bits of random info, such as what FreeBSD can do, what software packages are available to do <x>, what other organizations/web sites/whatever are using FreeBSD, etc. Of course, I point them to my own web page and web server, and mention very prominently that I run FreeBSD. I've been cranking these out left and right. Giving them to friends. My school has a UNIX class that uses Linux -- I've given FreeBSD to some of its students that want to run UNIX at home, and I'm considering approaching the school and possibly getting them to at least evaluate FreeBSD. More importantly, I am leaving them at every company I do work for (I do some consulting work), I leave a disk there and say "Hey, you might want to try this out..." This isn't as expensive as you may think. Decent SCSI devices are now going for lses than $300 (I purchased my Sony CDU-926S for $289); EIDE devices are really cheap, at $250 or less (ok, you have to use them under either Linux or 95/NT right now, but a FreeBSD driver is on its way -- thanks to Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.org>) You can get decent, but cheap, CD-R media at computer shows for $1.00 per disk, sometimes less. (Yes, I know, some people say "the cheap media is crap", but I have burned over 50 disks and haven't had a single failure caused by anyting other than human error). Anyway, it's an idea... - --- Donald Burr <dburr@POBoxes.com> - Ask me for my PGP key | PGP: Your WWW HomePage: http://DonaldBurr.base.org/ ICQ #1347455 | right to Address: P.O. Box 91212, Santa Barbara, CA 93190-1212 | 'Net privacy. Phone: (805) 957-9666 FAX: (800) 492-5954 | USE IT. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBNT3OKvjpixuAwagxAQFKQAP+JF9GPf5c/1TdfldnjDpKtpEmYSQZhaUD mjnGzbtZlgWKn0mDQ4yLTSEPobvwO0a4S7ucAuQmUVlZs0F1ekwIBsQNjqNskBeg m8YIKDrH+oANt6KULuyRy2Q8p18RAPTd0OsmGAjM2RYMC4za/yprtBUOj7XRst3S UGtMp2pzF5c= =W3Rm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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