From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Sep 2 10:11:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from melete.ch.intel.com (melete.ch.intel.com [143.182.246.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C64B914DD1 for ; Thu, 2 Sep 1999 10:11:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com) Received: from sedona.intel.com (sedona.ch.intel.com [143.182.218.21]) by melete.ch.intel.com (8.9.1a+p1/8.9.1/d: relay.m4,v 1.6 1998/11/24 22:10:56 iwep Exp iwep $) with ESMTP id KAA08129; Thu, 2 Sep 1999 10:11:15 -0700 (MST) Received: from hip186.ch.intel.com (hip186.ch.intel.com [143.182.225.68]) by sedona.intel.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1/d: sendmail.cf,v 1.8 1999/04/16 15:25:49 steved Exp steved $) with ESMTP id KAA14630; Thu, 2 Sep 1999 10:11:15 -0700 (MST) X-Envelope-From: jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com Received: (from jreynold@localhost) by hip186.ch.intel.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1/d: client.m4,v 1.3 1998/09/29 16:36:11 sedayao Exp sedayao $) id NAA13116; Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:11:16 -0400 (EDT) From: John Reynolds~ MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14286.44979.132612.485811@hip186.ch.intel.com> Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 10:11:15 -0700 (MST) To: mwlucas@exceptionet.com Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: suggestion: distfiles CD In-Reply-To: <199909021640.MAA13839@easeway.com> References: <199909021640.MAA13839@easeway.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.73 under Emacs 19.34.1 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [ On Thursday, September 2, mwlucas@exceptionet.com wrote: ] > > But for the last month, my distfiles CD has been completely useless. > Every distfile I've wanted, I've had to download. If the mid-September > date for the release of 3.3 is accurate, that means I have at least > another month, probobly six weeks, until I get an updated CD. I concur. Same thing has happened to me repeatedly. > If FreeBSD is coming out only every four months, might people be > interested in a "distfiles/packages" CD set on the alternate four months? > The work would be minimal, compared to a regular snapshot. I, at least, > would pay for it. Hell, I'd subscribe. Sounds like a good idea in concept. As long as the cost wasn't too high for a monthly deal (say $7.99 or something--I'm assuming 1 disc here with the most "popular" port distfiles) I'd subscribe; if nothing else to continue to support the development of FreeBSD with more dough (which is the only reason I still subscribe to the CD release set at this point). > Of course, I'm sure everyone else has a real Internet connection, and > doesn't have to worry about this. Not me ... :) -Jr -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= | John Reynolds CEG, CCE, Next Generation Flows, HLA | | Intel Corporation MS: CH6-210 Phone: 480-554-9092 pgr: 868-6512 | | jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com http://www-aec.ch.intel.com/~jreynold/ | =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message