From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 27 14: 1: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sable.cc.vt.edu (sable.cc.vt.edu [198.82.161.196]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E59B937BAB2 for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 14:00:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from memphis_ms@gmx.net) Received: from mail.vt.edu (gkar.cc.vt.edu [198.82.161.190]) by sable.cc.vt.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA07748; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 17:00:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: from gmx.net ([128.173.34.113]) by gkar.cc.vt.edu (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.2000.03.23.18.03.p10) with ESMTP id <0FYD00I5GJPGI2@gkar.cc.vt.edu>; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 17:00:54 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 17:00:31 -0400 From: Raoul Schroeder Subject: Re: To: Gary Kline Cc: Chris McNett , xxxkauaxxx@hotmail.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: <3980A2EF.92CEA35E@gmx.net> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en References: <20000727141402.78975.qmail@hotmail.com> <20000727131640.C17741@athena.sea.tera.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Well, this is the way I see it. Anyone who would be eligible for a educational discount (i.e. students, teachers, etc...) typically has ethernet access and probably a CD-Burner somewhere in the school/university environment. FreeBSD for $2, can't beat that. I think the same holds true for any computer store, but I may be wrong about that. Again, get one copy of FreeBSD and that's it. And the handbook alone is I think on the order of $40? Seems reasoable... I am not sure if FreeBSD will ever hit a lot of desktops though - simply for the fact that the gaming is somewhat restricted. It's a little better in Linux... Gary Kline wrote: > > >Hi my name is Kaua and I work at CompUSA in Concord California. I was > > >wondering if you had any promos going on to educate retail sales people on > > >the software. For example, Intel has a special site for retail and sales > > >reps to get more knowlege on the procs and chip sets so that they can sell > > >the product a lot better. I want to learn more about the software so I can > > >be more pepared for customers. I also wanted to know if you sell the > > >product to reps at a discounted price. > > ...Despite what's already been said, this is first time I've > ever heard of anyone at CompUSA show any interest in any > flavor of Unix. I think it'd be super if CompUSA offered a > PC clone with *BSD pre-installed. Greg L's book and a > selection of CD's included with the box. > > But: not likely... . > > gary > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message