From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed Aug 23 11:53:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from oldserver.demon.nl (oldserver.demon.nl [212.238.105.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E9E737B423; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 11:53:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by oldserver.demon.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA22611; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 20:52:57 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marc@oldserver.demon.nl) Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 20:52:57 +0200 (CEST) From: Marc Schneiders X-Sender: marc@unclad.freebeastie.org To: Mark Ovens Cc: Jordan Hubbard , freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CD-ROM with magazine In-Reply-To: <20000823184656.A254@parish> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, Mark Ovens wrote: > On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 05:28:32PM -0700, Jordan Hubbard wrote: [...] > > > 2. Examples of CD-ROM's other than the 'official' one. That is a full > > > CD. They won't give me that, I think. Examples of a 'distro' > > > (sorry) of 300 MB would be great.Are there any? > > > > I don't know of any smaller ones, to be honest. Why would they > > not give you a full CD? > > > > Is there any reason why they [cw]ould not put a full FreeBSD CD as > well as their regular one? This happens a lot with UK mags when they > are giving away the full (previous) version of some application or > other. Maybe BSDi could help out with that? I will take the matter to the magazine. The obvious reason would be that a second CD costs extra money. But you guessed that already. Thanks for all the responses. I have some facts to go by now. And some time, as I presume the magazine will want to wait for 4.2 and make it a Christmas gift :-) -- Marc Schneiders --- marc@venster.nl --- marc@schneiders.org FreeBSD unclad.freebeastie.org 5.0-CURRENT (SMP) NetBSD vax.freebeastie.org 1.4Y To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message