Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 19:01:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com> To: FreeBSD LIST <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.Org> Subject: Oh man I'm going to get flamed Message-ID: <20020802185133.X93594-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net>
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I've been thinking a lot about an offshoot version of FreeBSD that newbian users could get from the kern.flp / mfsroot.flp process and its sysinstall... There would be a checkbox for [ ]HomeFreeBSD or [ ]HomeBSD or the like (users could pay $19.95 for a CDROM and seven days of e-mail support, too). Just hear me out *grin* It would include the latest XFree86, KDE (or whatever most resembles the familiar StartButton), and OpenOffice. Out of the box. It would include viewers and players for common media -- practically built-in to KDE and its menus -- for files of type *.pdf, *.ra, *.asx, *.swf, *.doc, *.mov, *.qt, *.mpeg, *.mpg, *.mp3 and many other popular file types. I think that would be nice. HomeBSD might even include a tiny, simple binary that logs into a site at something like www.homebsd.org/cvsup/compare.cgi to make upgrades easier... or uses cvsup's port and protocol to accomplish this. :) A fairy ghost would fly of your diskette drive and install everything for you too. Not. -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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