From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon Mar 22 14:14:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9065E15293 for ; Mon, 22 Mar 1999 14:14:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA25238; Mon, 22 Mar 1999 21:10:01 GMT (envelope-from nik) Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 21:09:59 +0000 From: Nik Clayton To: Brett Glass Cc: Nik Clayton , advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netscape browser Message-ID: <19990322210958.A12575@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> References: <4.1.19990319171820.00c28ed0@localhost> <4.1.19990319134858.03fd24e0@localhost> <4.1.19990319114734.00b794b0@localhost> <4.1.19990319103804.00a8ec60@localhost> <4.1.19990319114734.00b794b0@localhost> <4.1.19990319134858.03fd24e0@localhost> <199903192134.NAA19894@osprey.grizzly.com> <4.1.19990319171820.00c28ed0@localhost> <19990320084146.A25246@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> <4.1.19990321151456.00b24a80@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990321151456.00b24a80@localhost>; from Brett Glass on Sun, Mar 21, 1999 at 03:18:02PM -0700 Organization: Nik at home, where there's nothing going on Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Mar 21, 1999 at 03:18:02PM -0700, Brett Glass wrote: > At 08:41 AM 3/20/99 +0000, Nik Clayton wrote: > >At this point it doesn't matter what Jordan or anyone else thinks of this > >idea. If you think it's a good idea then just *go and do it*. > > I'd love to, but even if I devote a huge chunk of my time to it I'm sure it > would be best done with a bit of help. Would you be willing to help with > the coding? I'd love to, but have neither the time or the talent. Your best bet is probably to do the following; 1. Put together a couple of webpages outlining why you think Linux running FreeBSD binaries would be a good thing. 2. Post *one* call to -hackers, pointing to the URL, and asking if anyone's interested. 3. Post a similar pointer on freebsdrocks.com. Try and get it submitted to slashdot. Pick a Linux distribution that you think you can work with (Debian are probably your best bet) and see if you can get them involved. Ask Illiad if he'll write a cartoon about it. Don't forget the newsgroups either. 4. Wait for the volunteers to come rolling in. 5. Act as point-man for the operation. 6. Come back to this list in 6 months time saying "I told you so!" Or you could throw lots of money at a developer and try and make it happen that way. But I think this discussion has gone about as far as it can. If you don't get volunteers after doing the above, you might have to accept that the right people[1] don't think it's a good idea, and live with it. N [1] Where "the right people" means the people who have the technical skill *and* the desire to implement it. I don't mean to imply that there's some central authority you have to impress to get this done. -- Bagel: The carbohydrate with the hole To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message