Re: Thoughts on potato etc.
On Sun, 7 Nov 1999, Jim Westveer wrote:
>
> On 08-Nov-99 Brandon Mitchell wrote:
> >
> > The list only has about 10 volunteers now (total, in and out of US), but I
> > can probably double or triple it with a little more effort. Give me a
> > ball park and I'll round up the volunteers. (I assume a post to -user
> > or -devel would easily generate 1000+ volunteers :-)
> >
> Brandon,
>
> I am just a mere mortal like yourself, and the cost of the disks I burn
> would come out of my beer / vacation fund.
>
> I can easaly put a stack of CD's in the burner, and come up with
> 10 - 3 CD sets to people who REALLY want to test em.
Ok, I'll leave the list where it is at now. 4 US and 4 non-US.
> But thats easly $75.00 bucks out of my pocket with shipping.
> And the way I look at it...its a LOT of Beer....
I completely forgot shipping. My head was stuck on the cost or a cd or
two.
> But if you are looking for thousands of CD's, you are gointo
> have to find a corporate sponsor, as I can not afford the
> time or money ;-(
Oh no, the thousands comment was just to work a ball park out of people.
I can't imagine anyone willing to do that. Sorry if it was misleading.
> Let me know what you think. Also, we should test more than just
> the i386 arch.....thoughts?
Unfortunately the -testing list is mostly i386, so I only have one amiga.
Let me know what archs are being done in this round, and I can try to grab
one from each of the arch specific lists.
Thanks,
Brandon
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