From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 12 12:57:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C87D37B400 for ; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 12:57:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from server.rucus.ru.ac.za (server.rucus.ru.ac.za [146.231.115.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6146043E3B for ; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 12:57:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drs@rucus.ru.ac.za) Received: (qmail 75521 invoked from network); 12 Sep 2002 19:57:42 -0000 Received: from bashir.dsl.ru.ac.za (146.231.113.19) by server.rucus.ru.ac.za with SMTP; 12 Sep 2002 19:57:42 -0000 Received: (qmail 4586 invoked by uid 1001); 12 Sep 2002 19:57:43 -0000 Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 21:57:43 +0200 From: David =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sieb=F6rger?= To: Jeff Walters Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Vendor question Message-ID: <20020912195743.GC2903@rucus.ru.ac.za> References: <28F5038E-C681-11D6-857F-00039342A52C@yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <28F5038E-C681-11D6-857F-00039342A52C@yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu 2002-09-12 (14:55), Jeff Walters wrote: > I am a fairly new user of FreeBSD and have enjoyed the experience and > hope this project continues to be successful in the future. > > I am wondering what to reasonably expect as a long term user, however. > Who actually owns and funds the CVS server(s) which I end up relying > heavily on (eg. cvsup11.freebsd.org)? cvsup@research.uu.net, apparently. The list of CVSup mirror maintainers is in the handbook at: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html#CVSUP-MIRRORS > And I didn't see this as a FAQ, > are there any "consumer" non-consulting vendors (ā la Red Hat, etc.) > who sell low-priced boxed FreeBSD -and- offer support and CVS access on > privately maintained servers? Lastly, what corporation or entity is > behind the retail boxed CD sets sold everywhere and do they offer any > particular support/access for customers? There are a number of companies producing CD-ROM or DVD-ROM sets. Again, they're listed in the handbook at: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors.html#AEN27494 http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-dvd.html Some of them, such as FreeBSD Mall, offer technical support - take a look at the websites linked from those pages. > Perhaps I am better suited as a Linux user since that has the vendor > support I am looking for, but I truly do prefer the FreeBSD platform. -- David Siebörger drs@rucus.ru.ac.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message