Re: [Devil-linux-develop] DL promotions.

[Heiko Z. <hz...@pr...>]

On 09/02/2003 02:45:19 PM Bruce Smith wrote:
>> > Three weeks from today, I'm giving a presentation on DL to my loca=
l
>> > Linux Users Group.  http://kalamazoolinux.org/
>>
>> Cool !
>
>If YOU want to give a talk sometime, I'll ask the LUG officers about
>picking up your expenses.  I'm being serious.  (for a change :)

Thanks for the offer, but I'm not really a good presenter. Especially n=
ot
in front of a lot of people.

>Last month we purchased a round trip plane ticket from Boston to fly i=
n
>a Ximian developer, who gave us a very good presentation!  Just this
>summer we've had three big names come in from out of town to present t=
o
>our group (Ximian, SuSE, and IBM).  With more coming soon (Novell).

Cool !

>> > My main objective is to convince some of the floppyfw/ipcop/...
>users in
>> > the audience to try DL.  My plan is to show how easy it is to setu=
p
>a
>> > basic DL firewall with minimal hardware and the new setup script.
>>
>> We should finish some functionality by then (e.g. USB boot), to
>impress
>> them even more.
>
>I'll have to see if I have any hardware that supports USB booting.
>
>Any idea if I boot from USB in VMware-4 (for the demo)?

Check if you see this in the BIOS-Setup of VMWare.
If you can't make it show up in the boot order (before probably needs t=
o be
enabled somewhere else), it most likely won't be supported.

>> > Another good selling point is the vast range of software included
>in the
>> > distribution. Is there a list somewhere of the included packages i=
n
>the
>> > new release? Something like
>http://www.devil-linux.org/introduction.htm
>> > would be great!  Has it been written yet?
>>
>> Nothing so far.
>> I was thinking if it would make sence, to export the descriptions fr=
om
>> "make menuconfig". Most of the needed information is included, we
>could
>> also add this file to CD *and* our website.
>
>I'd prefer a one line per software summary like we have now.
>Some of the help files are too verbose for this (IMO).
>
>Plus, we might miss some software that is not selectable in menuconfig=
.
>
>Maybe we should start with a "ls -1 src/", and add a little descriptio=
n
>to each line?  (and delete the base/extra stuff)

It would be a start.
I would like to see that stuff automated as much as possible, otherwise=

it's just getting outdated again.

>> You mentioned a good point, we should start creating the updated
>> website.
>
>Yes.
>
>> We could think about including it in the documentation, it
>> would be easy to include the file I mentioned before.
>
>Yes, whatever file we come up with should be included there.
>
>> > Any other suggestions of what to demonstrate would be appreciated.=

>>
>> I'll try to think about it, we could think about a phone conference =
or
>> chat this evening.
>
>I can't tonight (LUG meeting), but I'm free the rest of this week
>(I think).

I guess tomorrow sounds good.

cya
  Heiko
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