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Re: Official CDs maybe?



On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Cem Kayali 
<cemkayali%eticaret.com.tr@localhost> wrote:
> Jeremy C. Reed, 03/24/09 00:34:
>>
>> On Sat, 7 Mar 2009, Cem Kayali wrote:
>>
>>
>>>
>>> I've been surfing through several linux distributions' and as well as
>>> *BSDs' sites, and noticed that some of them (including OpenBSD and FreeBSD)
>>> offer official CDs. I would like to ask whether it is good idea releasing
>>> (pre-ordering) offical (maybe boxed, too) NetBSD5 CDs and DVDs? It could be
>>> a good gift for friends and would be a merchandize to support NetBSD too...
>>>
>>
>> Yes, it is a good idea.
>>
>> These days boxed sets and physical media may not sell well so probably not
>> worth mass production costs. But maybe you can research various
>> no-upfront-charge distributors like lulu, cafepress and others to see what
>> is a good idea for this.
>>
>> http://www.lulu.com/en/products/cd_dvd/?cid=en_product_portal
>>
>> http://software.cafepress.com/?topic=394
>>
>> I think others do boxed sets too.
>
>
> I've created a CD template based on cafepress cd template. It could be
> usefull, because NetBSD has already cafepress account (if NetBSD would like
> to offer NetBSD5 CDs).
> It is not complete yet, but maybe list members share their opinions. There
> are still empty white spaces as you see.
>
> It is at: http://www.eticaret.com.tr/netbsd/cd.template.1.jpg
>
> Regards,
> Cem
>

Wow. I really like it.

Can you prepare a similar one for the jibbed livecd ?

Thanks, Zafer.


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