From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 19 08:09:11 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D93A016A4BF for ; Fri, 19 Sep 2003 08:09:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lakemtao07.cox.net (lakemtao07.cox.net [68.1.17.114]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4323543FE1 for ; Fri, 19 Sep 2003 08:09:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kitbsdlist2@HotPOP.com) Received: from fortytwo ([68.109.49.234]) by lakemtao07.cox.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.05 201-253-122-130-105-20030824) with SMTP id <20030919150821.WASO15705.lakemtao07.cox.net@fortytwo>; Fri, 19 Sep 2003 11:08:21 -0400 Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 10:07:10 -0500 From: Vulpes Velox To: "Mike King" Message-Id: <20030919100710.617c8fcf.kitbsdlist2@HotPOP.com> In-Reply-To: <0F3177E4824EC94698BAA43AF73D1BC7C75F@hercules.ocsny.com> References: <0F3177E4824EC94698BAA43AF73D1BC7C75F@hercules.ocsny.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.3claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.9) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sorry. X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 15:09:12 -0000 Cool :) On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 11:32:43 -0400 "Mike King" wrote: > Off My Server... > > In any case, the company I work for is amoung other things an ISP, and we rely > quite heavily on fBSD. So long as we don't abuse the usage, I can arrange it > so that we can host here for the time being. possibly even drop a box in our > mfn colospace. It seems a good way to give back to the BSD community that has > given me so much in the past, and I expect in the future as well. > > Ultimately I would love to have a west cost mirror, so oms is probably a good > choice for that as well, of course I am assuming they on the other cost...;-) > > cheers, > m > > by the by are my messages making it out to the list or just locally? Have not seen the last two come in from the list. > ________________________________ > > From: Vulpes Velox [mailto:kitbsdlist2@HotPOP.com] > Sent: Thu 9/18/2003 12:22 AM > To: Mike King > Cc: Matt Olander; freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Sorry. > > > > Cool, either sounds like they could be interesting. Btw who is OMS? > > But yeah Mike, that sounds like it could be a good start. > > Is there any one out there that would be interested in helping out with > html/whatever? > > On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 14:07:22 -0400 > "Mike King" wrote: > > > bw and hardware shall not be a problem to start. I can certainly arrange for > > > > both the time being. fBSD5.1 + apache2+ php4 + mysql good enough to get > > rolling? Just let me know who's going to get access and from where. > > > > In fact why don't we put a call out for project helpers? Desginers? Admins? > > et cettera....then we can plug some people into teams and come up with a few > > > > designs picking best bits from each and start producing? > > > > Once things take off then and we have some interest then we can worry about > > bigger hosting. > > > > Cheers, > > Mikel King > > CIO/CTO > > Optimized Compter Solutions, INC. > > 39 West Fourteenth Street > > Second Floor > > New York, NY 10011-7489 > > www.ocsny.com > > > > ________________________________ > > > > From: owner-freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org on behalf of Matt Olander > > Sent: Wed 9/17/2003 1:46 PM > > To: Vulpes Velox > > Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org > > Subject: Re: Sorry. > > > > > > > > On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 12:40:11PM -0500, Vulpes Velox wrote: > > > It all ready does this great. :) If any thing starting to push FreeBSD > > > as a desktop OS too, besides a server only OS would be good. I personally > > > would love to do it if I had the bandwidth or a host for the project. > > > > > > If any one else is interested in this, I would really be interested in > > > getting together to discuss it and seeing what can be done about it. > > > > > > I personally would love to work on creating a desktop version of FreeBSD > > > which uses a bit of scripting to install some default packages or > > > whatever... > > > > I'm sure I could get OMS to give us hosting and some equipment for that. > > > > -matt