From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 12 12:58:22 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 41E9637B401 for ; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 12:58:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.comcast.net (smtp.comcast.net [24.153.64.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C427E43E81 for ; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 12:58:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfolkins@comcast.net) Disposition-notification-to: dfolkins@comcast.net Received: from groovy3xp (pcp01731796pcs.selrsv01.pa.comcast.net [68.83.131.193]) by mtaout03.icomcast.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 HotFix 0.8 (built May 13 2002)) with SMTP id <0H2C0002ZCT554@mtaout03.icomcast.net> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 15:58:17 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 15:58:08 -0400 From: dfolkins Subject: Re: Vendor question To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <001401c25a96$b7162030$0a00a8c0@groovy3xp> MIME-version: 1.0 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-priority: Normal References: <28F5038E-C681-11D6-857F-00039342A52C@yahoo.com> 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 for who owns cvs servers and stuff, maybe go to http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributors/staff-who.h tml and contact the cvsup mirror site coordinator from there. -- dfolkins ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Walters" To: Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2002 2:55 PM Subject: Vendor question 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)? And I didn't see this as a FAQ, are there any "consumer" non-consulting vendors ( 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? 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. Thanks, Jeff Walters To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message