Re: What sort of market does FreeBSD provide ... ?

2006-07-24 Thread Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg
User Freebsd wrote: 'k, there are at least two clients already in existence ... and, in fact, the one that I posted the URL about even has Protocol information included, so we *should* be able to avoid recreating the wheel here, only extend it ... I should *not* be a mandatory ... then

Re: What sort of market does FreeBSD provide ... ?

2006-07-24 Thread Darren
Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg wrote: Why not make it part of the installer? Present a screen at the end of the installation that briefly explains the idea, and then let the user chose to view the information about to be sent, refuse to send it or simply accept to send it. This of course requires the

Re: What sort of market does FreeBSD provide ... ?

2006-07-23 Thread Darren
User Freebsd wrote: Who *big* recognizes FreeBSD as a viable operating system, at least openly? When PHK asked the FreeBSD community to donate USD16,500-33000 so he could spend 3-6 months working regular hours on FreeBSD, Pair Networks (pair.com) donated USD20,000. I don't know if that's

Re: What sort of market does FreeBSD provide ... ?

2006-07-23 Thread kevlar Hodge-Podge
H. Stacey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: What sort of market does FreeBSD provide ... ? Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2006 18:23:12 -0700 User Freebsd wrote: Who *big* recognizes FreeBSD as a viable operating system, at least openly? When PHK asked the FreeBSD community to donate USD16,500-33000 so he could

Re: What sort of market does FreeBSD provide ... ?

2006-07-23 Thread User Freebsd
person would be more likely to send more info if they knew exactly what was being sent. From: Darren [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org To: User Freebsd [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org, Julian H. Stacey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: What sort of market

Re: What sort of market does FreeBSD provide ... ?

2006-07-23 Thread Darren
kevlar Hodge-Podge wrote: I just want to see if I understand the issue correctly. From what it sounds like there would need to both be a server for all the individual machines to connect to, and some sort of scripted client to capture info on the machine and send it to the server. When asking