[vox] Wildfire Idea to Help Katrina Victims

[Steve Hargadon]

Bill:

How hard is it to get an .iso file put up on some kind of mirrored
sites?  Can you point me toward some resource in this area.  I'm
afraid if we post the kiosk .iso we'll be unprepared for the
onslaught.

Steve

On 8/31/05, Bill Kendrick <nbs at sonic.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 04:53:33PM -0700, Steve Hargadon wrote:
> > I can set up a website that gives instructions to turn an old P2
> > computer, 128mb of ram, a nic card, and a working CD into a Firefox
> > browser kiosk.  Only needs to have a network connection.  Runs like a
> > champ.  No maintenance.  Nice and zippy.  No OS or licensing issues.
> 
> At the very least, I saw do the website, and see if you can poke the LUGs
> (or other ORGs/NPOs in that area) to see if they have the time/energy to
> actually gather the hardware and do it.
> 
> <snip>
> > We could have instructions, downloadable files, and everything set up
> > in less than a day.  Then we just have to get the word out.
> 
> Slashdot.org's pretty popular.  :^)  It's worthwhile, geeky and Linuxy,
> so a short blurb about it has a good chance of being accepted.
> 
> Smaller sites to hit include DesktopLinux.com, OSDir.com, Linux Weekly News,
> and probably some other non-Linux sites that I'm not familiar with.
> 
> Good luck!!!
> 
> -bill!
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