From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 29 16:50:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA08352 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 16:50:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA08345 for ; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 16:50:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id JAA14192; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 09:20:05 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id JAA16376; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 09:19:41 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19980930091941.E15172@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 09:19:41 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: paalleme@home.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The complete FreeBSD References: <19980929162713.DUGG6300.mail.rdc1.bc.wave.home.com@cr722230-a> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <19980929162713.DUGG6300.mail.rdc1.bc.wave.home.com@cr722230-a>; from Paul Allemekinders on Tue, Sep 29, 1998 at 09:27:13AM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday, 29 September 1998 at 9:27:13 -0700, Paul Allemekinders wrote: > I'm looking at ording "The Complete FreeBSD" and have found that > is comes with or without the 4 CD's. Are these CD's worthwhile > having? I have a high bandwith connection to the net so > downloading the os from www.freebsd.org isn't painful, is there > anything on the cd's that can not be downloaded from various sites? Even with a very high speed link, it still takes time to get the data, and you still need somewhere to store it. I find the CDs very convenient. And yes, AFAIK there are some things on the CDs which aren't on the ftp sites. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message