[osol-mktg] Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Bellinix Distro for Linux Format Magazine promotion

[Erast Benson]

btw, Laura, what is the deadline for this "brothers" DVD?
And thanks for doing this!

On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 19:54 -0500, Laura Ramsey wrote:
> 
> +1
> 
> Question: Can we get an estimate of how big that would be? Need to
> find out about space on DVD, constraints, etc.
> Anyone got a SWAG?  And would we have some room to include install
> notes from Dennis Clarke...
> 
> LKR
> 
> 
> Erast Benson wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 01:44 +0530, Moinak Ghosh wrote:
> >   
> > > Eric Boutilier wrote:
> > >     
> > > > My 2 cents: We (Sun and the opensolaris community) should be impartial 
> > > > and treat BeleniX, SchilliX, and Nexenta equally in this regard. I 
> > > > realize there are space constraints, but...
> > > >       
> > >    True. An idea that has been used effectively in the Linux community 
> > > is to have a
> > >    Multiboot DVD that contains all the 3 OpenSolaris distros. Since all 
> > > three are single
> > >    CD ones, all of them will fit into less than 2GB space leaving the 
> > > remaining for
> > >    other stuff.
> > > 
> > >    I already have mental map of the process to create this Multiboot DVD 
> > > and can
> > >    help with creating this.
> > >     
> > 
> > I like the idea and agreed that all "Baby" OpenSolaris distros needs
> > this sort of promotion among Linux users.
> > 
> >   
> 
-- 
Erast