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

2006-07-24 Thread User Freebsd
On Mon, 24 Jul 2006, Darren wrote: 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 s

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 m

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 ...

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

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

2006-07-23 Thread User Freebsd
" <[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 h

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

2006-07-23 Thread kevlar Hodge-Podge
@freebsd.org, "Julian 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

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 "r

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

2006-07-23 Thread User Freebsd
IMHO, it *has* to be an officially recognized project, not something someone just throws together and hopes ppl will register ... it should be something that ppl are encouraged to become members of, since our goal is to show vendors that we *are* a force ... but, it *should* be semi-anonymous

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

2006-07-23 Thread Julian H. Stacey
> Something just for FreeBSD users (well, all *BSD users should be invited, Why not co-operate with Linux guys on this ? there's Free Net Open Dragon, & there' a load of Linuxes too, & a lot of the admin & design would be the same to collect stats regardless, .. & a lot of the hard admin tool d

What sort of market does FreeBSD provide ... ?

2006-07-23 Thread User Freebsd
On various lists, there is talk about how to we make hardware vendors sit up and take more notice of us ... alot of the negative responses seem to be 'we are too small of a group', but, of course, nobody out there can really give any even *reasonable* numbers of desktops and servers deployed