From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 13 07:56:36 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72EB7106566B for ; Sun, 13 Feb 2011 07:56:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: from oproxy1-pub.bluehost.com (oproxy1-pub.bluehost.com [66.147.249.253]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3D7EE8FC1E for ; Sun, 13 Feb 2011 07:56:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 28678 invoked by uid 0); 13 Feb 2011 07:56:35 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box543.bluehost.com) (74.220.219.143) by oproxy1.bluehost.com.bluehost.com with SMTP; 13 Feb 2011 07:56:35 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=default; d=apotheon.com; h=Date:From:To:Subject:Message-ID:Mail-Followup-To:References:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To:User-Agent:X-Identified-User; b=Lw4rh7vP4AxGRAmYQvG4W5dEA9Cv7aFXkfY8N9ElzU7b/bdzJnDvQSFXdgJusNFmlkyDl8QOrDxcGMG5YaCxNjBUhotLJsjKLplZLWTfJi+Lsqg6Wn13VsUuEMnL0jcr; Received: from c-24-8-180-234.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.8.180.234] helo=kukaburra.hydra) by box543.bluehost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PoWos-0005XK-It; Sun, 13 Feb 2011 00:56:35 -0700 Received: by kukaburra.hydra (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sun, 13 Feb 2011 00:46:19 -0700 Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 00:46:19 -0700 From: Chad Perrin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20110213074619.GA57938@guilt.hydra> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="3V7upXqbjpZ4EhLz" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Identified-User: {2737:box543.bluehost.com:apotheon:apotheon.org} {sentby:smtp auth 24.8.180.234 authed with ren@apotheon.org} Cc: Subject: Re: Debian GNU/kFreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 07:56:36 -0000 --3V7upXqbjpZ4EhLz Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 10:12:05AM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > > My question is: WHY need 7 DVDs??? DVDs?? Even M$ does not do such a crazy > thing with its bloat-ware!! FreeBSD ships 1 DVD. > What is it that this Debian GNU/kFreeBSD ships in those 7 DVDs? It's probably just that portion of the complete Debian APT archives that has been compiled for the kFreeBSD variant of Debian. Those who want the complete set of archives on hand, for some version or other, rather than having to connect to the Internet every now and then to get packages, might find it handy. I've never used Debian (or any other open source OS) that way, though. Keep in mind that Debian's package archives have more software in them than any other OS software management system archives -- though I think FreeBSD is a not-too-distant second place. Also . . . do you think that top-posting helped? --=20 Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] --3V7upXqbjpZ4EhLz Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk1XjEsACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKUXogCg0nmkXc47/m2vz9yPDSUSw+fF Te4An3/srchNh0UtqaZWVW8IC6joubJb =5PSD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --3V7upXqbjpZ4EhLz--