[plug] Picked this up off the SLUG list... looks like a good idea to hel p newbies lower more gently into linux...

[David Buddrige]

We could also use it to promote ourselves (and maybe get sponsorship from an
isp - they would benefit if we configured the cd for their services)....

regards

David Buddrige
> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Grahame M. Kelly [SMTP:gmkelly at zipper.zip.com.au]
> Sent:	Monday, August 10, 1998 1:19 PM
> To:	Travis Simon
> Cc:	slug at slug.org.au
> Subject:	Re: [SLUG] Providing newbie help (was: ThinkPad problems) 
> 
> Hi Travis & Sluggers,
> 
> What you (Travis) have brought up is a good idea. 
> 
> I would like to see us make our own CD that is already cut with all
> the applications programs anyone just starting would like.
> Auto ppp to a specific Syndey ISP, Netscape, News, etc.
> I especially see that if we spoke to someone like : zip.com.au
> (not biased here - who ever will supply a newbie guest service for
> free woud get my vote, as long as they didn't change the phone 
> number of the login script); which would allow newbies to use a "guest
> login"
> so that the newbie can see netscape, and other apps running
> right off. The ISP would be happy as they would get more subscribers
> in the end, becasue most newbies are "inhibited" in moving into
> the unknown too quickly. Netscape proxy would be correctly setup,
> phone numbers etc all set. Just point & click (under X).
> 
> We could then sell the CD as a SLUG special, and save us all
> a lot of problems. Having htlm directly linked to HOWTO html docs
> on the CD, and maybe an combined FAQ. Other hotlinks could be
> then made to LDP locations at say www.linuxhq.com, and whenever
> we set it up, SLUG mail / news archives.
> 
> Ideally, a bootable CD which can auto-coexist with whatever the
> newbie has on the hard disk. I don't see us replacing the RH or
> whatever distributions, rather just having a good, working CD
> that answers all the questions a newbie will have for an initial
> setup, running or bootable from DOS/Win or itself, so they can find
> and understand, step by step.
> 
> We could sell them via CetusTech (Len Chan) is required, and maybe
> even keep it all on disk, and burn as required (with all the current
> updates).
> 
> Comments ?  Maybe a good topic to discuss in the quite times at the
> InstallFest ~(:>)}}}
> 
> Cheers Grahame
> 
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