From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 13 05:23:35 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 850DE37B401 for ; Tue, 13 May 2003 05:23:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from otter3.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6D7F43FA3 for ; Tue, 13 May 2003 05:23:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from centtech.com (electron.centtech.com [204.177.173.173]) by otter3.centtech.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h4DCNX56095896; Tue, 13 May 2003 07:23:34 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <3EC0E3AE.1050309@centtech.com> Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 07:23:10 -0500 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Pentchev References: <20030513081142.GA18966@straylight.oblivion.bg> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org cc: Tim Church Subject: Re: Free BSD at CompUSA X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 12:23:35 -0000 Peter Pentchev wrote: > On Sun, May 11, 2003 at 04:21:56PM -0400, Tim Church wrote: > >>Dear Webmaster, >> >>In the interest of avoiding any confusion, CompUSA does not sell FreeBSD >>anymore. >>I've had a few disappointed customers who say that your website lists us as >>a retailer who still carries you product. You might want to update your >>site. >> >>Thanks in advance, > > > Thanks a lot for the notice! The rest of this email is for the benefit > of the freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org mailing list members. > > The obvious fix would be the attached patch, which removes CompUSA from > the handbook/mirrors/chapter.sgml list of boxed product retailers. > However, there is a slight problem with it: the remaining text talks > about "several retailers", yet lists only one - Fry's :) > > Is anybody aware of other boxed product retailers? For that matter, can > anybody check whether Fry's still offer FreeBSD? From a quick look at > their website (and the Outpost redirect), I couldn't find anything by > navigating the menus, although an explicit search for 'FreeBSD' brought > up the FreeBSD Toolkit, which sounds somewhat similar to the FreeBSD > Mall product by the same name, yet leaves me with some doubt as to its > up-to-dateness... I know my local Fry's still sells FreeBSD boxed, however it is an older version. I also believe that Best Buy was selling it last time I went by there (6 months ago or so). > So.. what should we do about the Retailers section of the Mirrors > chapter? Maybe we should get rid of it altogether, until the bsd-advocacy group can get a list of maybe 10 or so going. It's almost a joke to see only 2 on there. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Attitudes are contagious, is yours worth catching? ------------------------------------------------------------------