Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 00:50:08 +0100 From: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Nik Clayton <nik@blueberry.co.uk> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freebsd-uk Message-ID: <1863.829871408@palmer.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 18 Apr 1996 21:26:45 BST." <199604182026.VAA01002@plum.blueberry.co.uk>
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Nik Clayton wrote in message ID <199604182026.VAA01002@plum.blueberry.co.uk>: > Just kicking around an idea here, but does anyone else feel a need for > a freebsd-uk mailing list? How about a UKFUG too? I know of several people who would be interested... > - Swapping information about suppliers in the UK who ship hardware that > FreeBSD works with. (and doesn't work with. *ahem*) > - Using FreeBSD with ISPs in the UK, sharing of config files and the > like Actually, something that needs starting is a GENERAL library of config files for connecting to ISP's... > - Co-ordinating mirrors of FreeBSD information from an ftp, sup and http > standpoint. I only know of FTP mirrors in the UK :-( I have yet to find a machine with enough disk space & bandwidth to handle a SUP mirror :-( Although I think B1000 could handle a WWW mirror. > - Stimulate the use of FreeBSD in the .ac.uk domain (where most students > seem to be running Linux, because it's all they've heard of) Definately, although some code groundwork needs to be done before I want to REALLY start pushing FreeBSD in the UK. I have on a couple of occasions recently seen Linux FT on cover CDROM's of UK mags, and thought about contacting the mag to get FreeBSD covered too, but without decent (E)IDE support, I can't. And I don't mean just CDROM's but also LBA disks (i.e. large disks) too. It was annoying recently when a friend really wanted to move to FreeBSD, but it wouldn't install properly on his box. Downloaded slackware 3.0 of sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk and ran first time. The problem? A 1Gb EIDE disk that needs to be shared between DOS & UN*X. I can't be sure (I'm about400 miles from the machine in question), but I'm betting that FreeBSD couldn't hack the translation produced by the controller. > - Co-ordinate with the UKUUG (UK Unix User Group) and LUUG (London Unix > User Group) with the events that they run. Yep. > - Meetings, get togethers, pub crawls and so on. . . Heh. Pub crawls eh? Serious stuff :) Gary
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