From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Feb 18 17:29:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (zippy.cdrom.com [204.216.27.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68606114C2 for ; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:29:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id RAA40393; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:29:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) To: Randall Hopper Cc: Tommy Hallgren , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.1R ISO CD Image ?? In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 18 Feb 1999 19:54:18 EST." <19990218195418.A2540@ipass.net> Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:29:00 -0800 Message-ID: <40389.919387740@zippy.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > True. Seems like the last one was mirrored to other FreeBSD dist sites > though (thank goodness! As is wellknown, access to ftp.cdrom.com out here If it was, I didn't know of any. I specifically stuck it in incoming/ so that I wouldn't get shot by mirror sites wondering where 2.4GB of extra space suddenly went. > I wonder if WalnutCreek might consider a "FreeBSD Lite" version of each new > RELEASE which is just CD#1 for $5-10. Being a Joe-user, that's all I ever I've asked this and they don't much like the idea since it makes it extremely hard to turn a profit at those sorts of margins. FreeBSD is not enough of a "volume" product that you could make enough just on sheer quantity alone. Frankly, we have no idea how Cheapbytes makes any money at $4.95. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message