Re: A cohesive sales message

Let me ask Bill Pollock (No Starch Press) and Geoff Davidson (pgsql.com)

Robert Treat wrote:

>So how do we get a copy of it? Say if we wanted to include a copy of it
>in the OSCon goodie bag?
>
>Robert Treat
>
>On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 07:46, Robert Bernier wrote:
>
>
>>The knoppix variant has been designed to showcase Postgres. It has ALL
>>the bell's and whistles including pgpgsql, plperl(u), tcl(u), pythonu,
>>odbc, Java etc. The desktop includes links to documentation, pgadmin3,
>>pgaccess. When it boots up it even uses the postgres elephant instead of
>>the usual Tux.
>>
>>
>>Robert Bernier wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>It runs well. It is presently in the hands of No Starch Press and
>>>pgsql.com. It's going to be a companion CD to a Postgres book that is
>>>looking to be on the market this coming summer.
>>>
>>>Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>>A knoppix variant with Postgres installed has already been done.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>Does it actually run? I thought Postgres was not prepared to run on
>>>>read-only media. It needs a separate PGDATA area, doesn't it?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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