From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Apr 2 14:15:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C35214E84 for ; Fri, 2 Apr 1999 14:15:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id HAA21365; Sat, 3 Apr 1999 07:45:00 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id HAA01221; Sat, 3 Apr 1999 07:45:00 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19990403074500.K413@lemis.com> Date: Sat, 3 Apr 1999 07:45:00 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Donald Wilde Cc: Michael Doyle , advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Advocacy References: <3704B684.9C55D77A@thuntek.net> <12207.923059838@zippy.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <12207.923059838@zippy.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Fri, Apr 02, 1999 at 05:30:38AM -0800 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday, 2 April 1999 at 5:30:38 -0800, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >> I agree that CD#1 is stand-alone enough, Jordan, but it's not demo >> material by any means. I can't see asking anybody to do even a two-hour >> minimal install to "look at" a system, especially just to get a command >> prompt on the screen. Technical evaluators and MIS people, yes, but >> that's not what Joe LinWin is going to want to see. > > Ah, but since we don't have anything like that at the moment and the > magazine folks have never shown themselves willing to go to that much > trouble to "repackage" a cover disk in the past, we have to be > pragmatic. CD #1 is what we have now. If and when that should > change, we'll reevaluate the situation. What about the Cybernet demo disk? Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message