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Date:      Wed, 30 Sep 1998 09:19:41 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        paalleme@home.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: The complete FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <19980930091941.E15172@freebie.lemis.com>
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
References:  <19980929162713.DUGG6300.mail.rdc1.bc.wave.home.com@cr722230-a>

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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
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