Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1995 06:39:14 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Edward Beili <edward@cpm.telrad.co.il> Cc: Peter Stubbs <peters@staidan.qld.edu.au>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What ever happened to... ? / new money spinner Message-ID: <1120.819470354@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 20 Dec 1995 15:48:04 %2B0200." <Pine.HPP.3.91.951220153522.14956A-100000@tlcpmh34.elex.co.il>
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I dunno, anybody interested in becoming a CD author? :-) This is one of those labors-of-love things that you can't really even pay somebody enough to do. I certainly know that all of us at WC are waaaaaaay too busy to even realistically entertain the notion right now.. :-) > On Wed, 20 Dec 1995, Peter Stubbs wrote: > > > This may not be of any help, but perhaps a new freebsd product would > > help? The one I have in mind is a documentation / support CD. > > > > If it included the -questions archive, the handbook, the > > documentation project and the browsable kernel source. All in html or > > some other portable format, with a browser. You get the picture, > > setup so even a newbie could work it. Perhaps with ghostscript, > > chimera, xdvi etc in packages. > > > > Present it to WC ready to print, and ask for 5% of the profit for a > > hardware/development fund. > > > > I can tell you that I'd subscribe straight away. Since I run FreeBSD > > at home without a net link, I'd refer to it all the time. At work > > it'd be great since I could mount it under my web page heirarchy and > > browse at CD speed, rather that the dog slow AARNET speed here in > > Australia. > > > > This is a product I'd love to see! > > > > What do you think? > > Peter > > I would like to have this too. Would it be possible, Jordan? > Anybody from WC? > > -Edward >
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