Re: [Etherboot-developers] Rom-o-matic feature request

[Marty C. <ma...@et...>]

On Friday, August 22, 2003, at 07:17  PM, Marty Connor wrote:
> On Wednesday, August 20, 2003, at 04:41  PM, Paolo Salvan wrote:
>> The new etherboot should allow to build auto-detecting floppy
>> ("etherboot", "etherboot-pci"); can this feature be usable also from 
>> the
>> rom-o-matic web site?

> Anyway, thanks for your suggestion, and I'll see what my staff thinks 
> of it.

I should have put a big smiley :) behind that. Or better a wink ;)

Lest people actually think there is a department of people here working 
on Etherboot, rather than a globally distributed dedicated group of 
professionals who give of their copious free time to support Free 
Software and make the world a better place (as well as work on a really 
cool project! ;)

I was just writing to Ken:

"... When I do the LinuxWorld shows, knowing that there are people in 
the world who respect and depend on Etherboot is a great source of 
comfort and strength. I missed the mingling and non-directed thinking I 
used to do before at shows. But being in the booth and making direct 
contact with our "customers" is such an important thing that even after 
3 years and six shows, I always look forward to the next one, and what 
improvements we can bring to the table. "

I probably should write more. I often find email (and writing in 
general) a dissatisfyingly uni-dimensionsal half-duplex, and  
unexpressive medium, in general. But it is what it is, and I do my best 
with it. It has its good points too.

As a wrap-up to LinuxWorld Expo (pictures at http://www.thinguin.org/ ) 
I'd like to thank everyone who is associated with the Etherboot project 
for your support. I'd like to thank Markus for taking time from work to 
help in the booth and hack on the http: download stuff. So many people 
come up to the booth and say nice things about us. BIOS vendors are 
getting interested in adding Etherboot as an option. I need to 
follow-up with them.

In the four years I have been helping with Etherboot, we've seen some 
really excellent things happen, and it's worth checking out 
http://www.etherboot.org/doc/html/userman/acknowledgements.html to see 
all the people who have given a little (or much more) of themselves to 
make Etherboot as useful as it is.

Ken is good at modestly thanking others, but let me say that the last 
four years of Etherboot hacking have been a great privilege, and 
hopefully, people appreciate both the code and the sense of fun.

Thanks to everyone, and I can't wait to see what we come up with next!

Marty