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From: rjrjr@lighthouse.com (Ray Ryan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: The End of the Big Green Disk?
Message-ID: <1991Apr26.224809.220@lighthouse.com>
Date: 26 Apr 91 22:48:09 GMT
Organization: Lighthouse Design, Ltd.
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Hello all.

A while back, Lighthouse Design set out to donate our time and money
to perform a service for the burgeoning NeXT community: we compiled
all the public domain and shareware we could stuff onto an OD (see
contents below), and began distributing it for as little money as
possible under the moniker "The First Compilation Disk".

Well, a year and a tripling of optical disk prices later, the burden
is proving too much for our tiny organization. The now renamed Big
Green Disk, proceeds from which are donated to environmental
charities, is pretty popular, and requires more time and effort than
we can give it. For this reason, we will stop distributing the disk
May 15. But we'd hate to see it die.

With this posting, we're officially extending the invitation to
another group to take over duplication, updating and distribution of
the Big Green Disk. Why? The Big Green Disk ensures the flow of free
and shareable software to those without net access. And saves a
tremendous amount of time even for those who do. We'd like to make
sure that access is maintained.

We'll point you to a cheap source of double-sided OD's, and hand you
the pile of stuff we were getting ready to add to the disk (we'll even
pass you a list of our favorite charities...:-).

If you or your group might be interested in taking things over, please
write to disk@lighthouse.com (...!uunet!lighthouse!disk) and we'll
talk. Thanks for your consideration.

Ray Ryan
Lighthouse Design, Ltd.
disk@lighthouse.com

------------------Sample Contents as of 26 Apr------------------


*       The entire GNU distribution, including:

        GNU emacs
        gdb, the GNU debugger
        GNU versions of awk, diff, grep, cpio, troff, postscript,
            tar, sed...
        GNU utilties used by NeXT in NeXTStep 1.0 are included

*       Programs from the Purdue NeXT archive, such as:

        AltDock, allows you to extend your dock
        NX_VOID, a 3-dimensional asteroids game
        Tetris, the ever popular arcade game
        DefaultMgr, an editor for your Defaults database
        
*       News and newsletters, including:

        Archives of the USENET newsgroup comp.sys.next
        Bay Area NeXT Users Group (BaNG)
        Rocky Mountain NeXT Users Group (rmNUG)
        NeXT Users Journal (formerly the *BuzzNUG Buzzings:)

*       An X11R3 server for NeXTstep 1.0, a beta test version formerly
        named XNeXT

*       comp.sources.unix archives (all since its creation)

*       kermit and cnews

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Ray Ryan                            Lighthouse Design, Ltd.
rjrjr@lighthouse.com                6516 Western Ave.
+1-301-907-4621                     Chevy Chase, MD, USA 20815-3212