Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 10:11:20 +0800 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Andrew I. Arbuckle" <aiarbuckle@naxs.com>, dwilde1@ibm.net Cc: Woody Carey <wcarey@cs.uoregon.edu>, dg@root.com, Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com>, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: An idea for promoting FreeBSD Message-ID: <19980424101120.12255@papillon.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <353E5DF5.32197EF8@naxs.com>; from Andrew I. Arbuckle on Wed, Apr 22, 1998 at 05:15:33PM -0400 References: <Pine.GSO.3.96.980422112250.5564A-100000@statix.cs.uoregon.edu> <353E3B82.2D7540FE@ibm.net> <353E5DF5.32197EF8@naxs.com>
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On Wed, 22 April 1998 at 17:15:33 -0400, Andrew I. Arbuckle wrote: > Just a comment from an individual that is looking into an OS for a > practical application - It appears from my research that FreeBSD would > be ideal for any organization thinking of setting up an in-house Web > Server, at least from the cost view, and even if you factor in the > learning curve, it still looks very competitive. Perhaps you should > address this is your demo idea. Most people don't run web servers. Many want to, and maybe it's a good "and this too" idea, but if you're giving away thousands of CDs, most people will just want to run it on their machines to see what it does. Summarizing a number of good suggestions, I think the CD should first and foremost: Create a reasonably functional FreeBSD environment running from CD-ROM with an MFS file system for write-only. This can work well on systems with large memory, and doesn't require any changes to the disk. As a second stage, we can offer installation on a spare partition. BIG RED LETTERS must spell out the dangers of trying to install on a system which doesn't have a spare partition (and point out that this isn't FreeBSD, this is elementary software installation). Give them X with 640x480, possibly with the possibility of choosing a couple of well-known boards at higher resolution. For familiarity's sake give them xfvwm95 or another Microsoft-like window mangler, and tell them that we can do better. Put as much documentation on the CD as possible. I might even be able to talk O'Reilly into putting a text version of CFBSD on the CD, but I don't want to mention that yet until the project is more concrete. Point to how this simple demo is just a taste of what FreeBSD can do. Comments? Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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