From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 16 12:03:18 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA06318 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 12:03:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from borg.mindspring.com (borg.mindspring.com [204.180.128.14]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA06305 for ; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 12:03:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bogus.mindspring.com (user-37kb9d3.dialup.mindspring.com [207.69.165.163]) by borg.mindspring.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA22466; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 15:03:05 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.19970416190304.00923e8c@mindspring.com> X-Sender: kpneal@mindspring.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.4 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 15:03:04 -0400 To: jbryant@tfs.net From: "Kevin P. Neal" Subject: Re: On Holy Wars, and a Plea for Peace [sorry Danny, wherever you are, but the title fits]... Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 09:14 PM 4/15/97 -0500, Jim Bryant wrote: >5). university library sales... get new compugeeks running it... our >universities are not exectly teaching operatings systems like they used >to to today's "Clueless" HS grads... Hear hear! Even better: give the CDs away. Red Hat came out with 4.0, then 4.1 in short order. They then had the 4.0 CDs laying around doing nothing. The solution? Well, they donated the 4.0 stock to NCSU's Comp Sci department. This was a month ago. The CDs are gone now. I was hoping to see if something like this could be arranged in the Fall, say 3-4 weeks into the semester. Give everyone time to move in, then make FreeBSD CDs available cheap. Might get a few converts. Then again, to make that worthwhile you have to support "crap" hardware. IDE CD-ROMS, Packard Bell, Gateway 2000, etc. Something to think about. -- XCOMM Kevin P. Neal, Junior, Comp. Sci. - House of Retrocomputing XCOMM mailto:kpneal@pobox.com - http://www.pobox.com/~kpn/ XCOMM kpneal@eos.ncsu.edu Spoken by Keir Finlow-Bates: XCOMM "Good grief, I've just noticed I've typed in a rant. Sorry chaps!"