From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 27 20:49:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f180.law9.hotmail.com [64.4.9.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 156CD37B597 for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 20:49:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chrismcnett@hotmail.com) Received: (qmail 21110 invoked by uid 0); 28 Jul 2000 03:49:28 -0000 Message-ID: <20000728034928.21109.qmail@hotmail.com> Received: from 209.183.76.18 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 20:49:28 PDT X-Originating-IP: [209.183.76.18] From: "Chris McNett" To: kline@tera.com, chrismcnett@hotmail.com Cc: xxxkauaxxx@hotmail.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 03:49:28 GMT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You know, Penguin Computing does sell Linux boxes ready-made...what if they started doing FreeBSD and sent their stuff to CompUSA? Hmmm... >From: Gary Kline >To: Chris McNett >CC: xxxkauaxxx@hotmail.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Re: >Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 13:16:40 -0700 > >On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 02:14:02PM +0000, Chris McNett wrote: > > FREEBSD IS NOT A COMMERCIAL PRODUCT. The FreeBSD project doesn't sell >it. > > Walnut Creek CDROM sells CD's of FreeBSD, but people like me who have >DSL > > simply download it from the Internet. Walnut Creek and the FreeBSD Mall > > have reasonable prices, so you should be able to buy the CD at a >reasonable > > price if you need it. The best way to learn about it is to use it. >There > > is a very helpful handbook online which should walk you through >installation > > and everything. Also, anyone who would actually buy FreeBSD from a >computer > > store should simply order a CD from Walnut Creek. > > > [[ ... ]] > > > > > >Hi my name is Kaua and I work at CompUSA in Concord California. I was > > >wondering if you had any promos going on to educate retail sales people >on > > >the software. For example, Intel has a special site for retail and >sales > > >reps to get more knowlege on the procs and chip sets so that they can >sell > > >the product a lot better. I want to learn more about the software so I >can > > >be more pepared for customers. I also wanted to know if you sell the > > >product to reps at a discounted price. > > > ...Despite what's already been said, this is first time I've > ever heard of anyone at CompUSA show any interest in any > flavor of Unix. I think it'd be super if CompUSA offered a > PC clone with *BSD pre-installed. Greg L's book and a > selection of CD's included with the box. > > But: not likely... . > > gary > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message