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To: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
Cc: Gregory Bond <gnb@itga.com.au>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG,
	brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org
Subject: Re: distfiles no longer on 4.0 CDs 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 18 Apr 2000 22:43:10 BST."
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Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 09:01:15 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>
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Who knows?  Every time I've sent an ISO image to the replicators,
they come back with comments that their mastering software seems to
barf and they're awaiting fixes from the manufacturer.

- Jordan

> > > Just a heads-up:  The 4.0 CDs from WC don't seem to contain distfiles any
 mor
> > e 
> > > - the last two disks contain only packages (i.e. pre-compiled binaries).
> > 
> > That's because the number of packages got so large as to basically
> > kick the distfiles off.  We really need DVD to become more popular
> > in end-user machines and for the replication companies to be able to
> > cope with it. :)
> 
> So when is a DVD distribution likely to be plausible ?  ;-)
> 
> > - Jordan
> 
> -- 
> Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>                        <brian@[uk.]FreeBSD.org>
>       <http://www.Awfulhak.org>                   <brian@[uk.]OpenBSD.org>
> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !
> 
> 



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