From owner-freebsd-doc Tue May 7 6: 9:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from blackhelicopters.org (geburah.blackhelicopters.org [209.69.178.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FFE937B409 for ; Tue, 7 May 2002 06:09:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mwlucas@localhost) by blackhelicopters.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g47D90o27708; Tue, 7 May 2002 09:09:00 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mwlucas) Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 09:09:00 -0400 From: Michael Lucas To: Paul Richards Cc: doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [Fwd: Clarification: producers of FreeBSD CD-ROMs] Message-ID: <20020507090900.A27671@blackhelicopters.org> References: <1020776002.87601.1.camel@lobster.freebsd-services.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <1020776002.87601.1.camel@lobster.freebsd-services.com>; from paul@freebsd-services.com on Tue, May 07, 2002 at 01:53:22PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Sounds like a good idea here. Any objection, other -doc folks? It's not like we have DVD manufacturers choking the list of CDROM manufacturers. :-) On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 01:53:22PM +0100, Paul Richards wrote: > Can we re-organise the listing of distributors so that they're not > separated into CD and DVD sections? > > The attached clarification from core points to a page that we're not on > because of the current organisation of the handbook. I'm not sure > there's a good reason to separate the list based on CD/DVD, it'd make > more sense to just list all distributors on a single page. > > -----Forwarded Message----- > > > From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey > > To: announce@FreeBSD.org > > Subject: Clarification: producers of FreeBSD CD-ROMs > > Date: 06 May 2002 18:51:20 +0930 > > > > Possibly as the result of the end of support by Wind River, a certain > > amount of confusion has arisen about the relationship between the > > FreeBSD project and producers of FreeBSD CD-ROMs. The core team would > > like to make the following points clear: > > > > 1. The FreeBSD project does not produce CD-ROMs. > > 2. There are multiple third party sources of CD-ROMs. Some, but not > > necessarily all, are listed at > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors.html > > in the section titled "CD Sets". We encourage updates to this > > list. > > 3. The FreeBSD project does not favour any specific vendor. In > > particular, there is no "official supplier". > > > > Greg Lehey > > FreeBSD Core team > > -- > > See complete headers for address and phone numbers > > > > This is the moderated mailing list freebsd-announce. > > The list contains announcements of new FreeBSD capabilities, > > important events and project milestones. > > See also the FreeBSD Web pages at http://www.freebsd.org > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-announce" in the body of the message > > > -- > Paul Richards | FreeBSD DVD releases and merchandise. > FreeBSD Services Ltd | Hardware, support and development. > http://www.freebsd-services.com | Domain names and mail/web hosting. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@FreeBSD.org, mwlucas@BlackHelicopters.org http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons Absolute BSD: http://www.nostarch.com/abs_bsd.htm To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message