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From: orc@pell.chi.il.us (Orc)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD
Date: 13 Dec 1995 13:34:34 -0800
Organization: White Picket Fences
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In article <4ahtib$ckq@helena.mt.net>,
Nate Williams <nate@sneezy.sri.com> wrote:
>Let's say for example we're in the business of providing a LAN anaylyzer
>product. We want to provide a 'complete' solution to the end users, so
>we sell an entire system pre-configured with our software.
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>Now, if we use Linux we must provide the source code to the OS along
>with the rest of our product. This increases the size of the
>distribution (we need a bigger disk), and we must also provide the user
>a way of accessing the software, so our software must be modified to get
>at the OS through some hook on our software.
You're forgetting the easy solution. Burn a CD Rom and stuff a
copy of everything, including the 2.6mb of kernel sources, onto that
disk. Util you reach the point where your application + the system
is within 2.6mb of the capacity of the disk, you've managed to provide
an easy to get at collection of the essentials for the system for an
additional cost of about $.55 ($.04-$.40 for the CD, $.15 for the sleeve
to stuff the CD in.) Wouldn't that be easier than distributing an
archive copy on tape, or, worse, not distributing an archive copy and
forcing a FE to go to the site if a reinstall is necessary?
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david parsons \bi/ orc@pell.chi.il.us
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