From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 4 20:01:55 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62FEE16A420 for ; Sun, 4 Dec 2005 20:01:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wrangled@verizon.net) Received: from vms040pub.verizon.net (vms040pub.verizon.net [206.46.252.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17F2743D46 for ; Sun, 4 Dec 2005 20:01:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wrangled@verizon.net) Received: from [192.168.0.29] ([68.236.212.14]) by vms040.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-4.02 (built Sep 9 2005)) with ESMTPA id <0IQZ00DPAOZ4P3K0@vms040.mailsrvcs.net> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 04 Dec 2005 14:01:53 -0600 (CST) Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2005 15:01:51 -0500 From: wrangled To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <43934B2F.1040901@verizon.net> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en-us, en User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) Subject: InstantBSD via VMWare player ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2005 20:01:55 -0000 VMWare has a free "VMWare Player", perhaps someone could make a slick desktop-ish FreeBSD virtual machine - so that people considering FreeBSD could download it and see what FreeBSD is like? http://www.vmware.com/products/player I would do it, except I have an older (4.5) version of VMWare, and I'm not yet very FreeBSD-savy. Something that would be quick inside a VM, like FluxBox or FVWM, but with some cool hacks to show people how it can be customized. Maybe a big one too, like KDE or GNOME with all the bells-and-whistles, so they could see the other end of the spectrum. thanks!