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From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@flat.berklix.net>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD on DVD 
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"D.Mella" wrote:
> Good Afternoon,
> 
> I'm new to freebsd, and I'm really excited about this whole new world.  I've
> been reading, and looking on the internet, and I'm wondering why there isn't
> a freebsd downloadable version in DVD.

Bandwidth costs money to net providers. Lots of a DVD would not be
needed.  Sponsors of BSD still hope to make some money selling DVDs
& donating from profits - we hope.  There's various 600M cdrom
images for various releases & CPU architectures  on all the many
mirrors of ftp://ftp.freebsd.org One or two CDs is all you need to
do a basic install, after that many use the net.

PS simple questions are best posted to questions@freebsd.org please.

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