Re: Getting free ISPs to work

[Pat Mahoney <pat7@gmx.net>]

On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 09:24:03PM -0700, John Bagdanoff wrote:
> Keep an eye on this site.
> 
> http://beta.freei.net/
> 
> Click on beta release.  Not sure how soon they'll have a linux port to
> test.
> 
> fred
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I have looked at Freei before and was very curious as to how they
would go about porting their as software to Linux. AFAIK, they give
you a seperate program to run while connected which display ads
constantly.

I mean, the point is to make it so the ads are always visible, right? 
So the windows version somehow stays on top and visible.  But windows
doesn't have virtual desktops, text terminals (well, not that you use
while connected to freei), multiple virtual terminals, or multiple X
sessions.

I'd be interested to see what they plan on doing.  If it's as simple
as 'startx -- :1' to get rid of the advertisements, how can they
convince their advertisers that the ads will be seen?

Are there ways to make sure a window is visible?

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Pat Mahoney  <pat7@gmx.net>


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