The Live PostgreSQL CD: FOSS Marketing 102

PostgreSQL is not the first project to launch a live CD, but the concept is one many projects should seriously consider adopting as a marketing tool.

I was going to tell you about my Foresight Linux test run, but the Foresight CD doesn’t do anything. At least, not the one I got. Maybe I should have had the foresight to pick up two CDs? Yeah, I know it’s a bad pun. Maybe I’ll just take a look at the Foresight Linux website later and see what I think about downloading their distro. Meanwhile, the PostgreSQL folks had an Xubuntu-based live CD. And it worked.

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