From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Sep 2 15:19: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from spork.cs.unm.edu (mail.cs.unm.edu [198.59.151.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E4F314EFF for ; Thu, 2 Sep 1999 15:19:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from colinj@cs.unm.edu) Received: from nobby.cs.unm.edu ([198.59.151.103] ident=mail) by spork.cs.unm.edu with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #3) id 11MfB8-00022E-00 for stable@freebsd.org; Thu, 2 Sep 1999 16:17:58 -0600 Received: from colinj by nobby.cs.unm.edu with local-esmtp (Exim 2.05 #1 (Debian)) id 11MfB8-0000KO-00; Thu, 2 Sep 1999 16:17:58 -0600 Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 16:17:58 -0600 (MDT) From: Colin Eric Johnson To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: suggestion: distfiles CD In-Reply-To: <14286.44979.132612.485811@hip186.ch.intel.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, John Reynolds~ wrote: > > [ 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 ... :) another solution, or part of this solution, might be to offer a CD image that could be downloaded and burnt. Given some of the more active user groups in some areas this might be a great way to get CDs out to folks. It could cost as little as $1.00 for CDs in that fashion. I don't know if there are things in/on the distfiles CD(s) have copyright restrictions. Colin E. Johnson | colinj@unm.edu | http://www.unm.edu/~colinj/ Harming only the humorless since 1967 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message